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equation keyboard contribution by my cat.
Taking bizarre occurances and running with them in a ‘serendipitous’ sort of way is something that I try not to overlook. Perhaps it is a desperate hope that there is a hidden message somewhere that I am missing. The meaning of life, or at least of why we do certain things, that don’t necessarily make sense but feel ‘right’ at a particular time.
I live where I live, purely because of a chance event, and then a bizarre, against all common sense, instinct, that that is where I was supposed to live.
Look! my cat has just written the first bit of my blog for me, by chance, as I was pondering how to start. It is all part of a grand plan I am sure.
This is one of the reasons that I don’t manage to finish works that seem to have masses of potential, and have had hours of work invested in them, that then are abandoned, or interuppted and get forgotten – their time has passed, I missed the bus.
So that brings me to two works that I am currently feeling I should be revisiting. Both have been hanging around tripping my family up, at every opportunity, for quite some time. Should I continue with them? or set them adrift? Both exist under different circumstances and neither are in the forefront of my thinking at the moment, but both are calling to me.
1. SPECTRUM – this is an ongoing work started in late 2010. A work which I embarked on knowing that it would be one of endurance, will it ever be finished and how will I know when to stop? To date, there are 960 labels sewn on. Not sure that I want to calculate how many hours of my life that equals. Perhaps it’ll be finished in time to draw my pension, but will I care about it then? Does reasoning become more potent or diminish with time? When I started it, I don’t think I quite realised the commitment. However, it is a history in itself. At what point is it done enough to think I could exhibit it? And can I continue with it if I do?
2. (unofficially titled) TORN – this is a partner work to WORN. I really want to make it but remembering that WORN took 2 years to make, have I got that time to invest in this piece right now? I started it with a particular location in mind which has since fallen through – it would feel almost cannablisitc to dismantle her now. But if not now when?
Perhaps I shall leave it all up to Elsie to decide.
