Since doing the MA together, Bo and I have talked about working on some common project. We even have got as far as booking some space later in the year to do it. There is a large enough overlap in the Venn diagram of how we think and work for it to be a successful mix, while the outcomes are still diverse enough for it to be interesting. We’ve been talking about similar things from different angles: deconstruction and reconstruction…. But lots of other words too. Anyway, the result of this is that we now have a fair vision of what we might do individually for this project. We may or may not end up making something collaborative. I’ve got myself all wound up about a completely new seam of ideas.
(I don’t think Bo and I will be blog-documenting the process, as we both have enough to be getting on with. But there might be the odd joy or quandary along the way that gets written about.)
My problem then is this… I have all this “Respectable” stuff going on in my head, several pieces I want to try to make, and follow that path… it still holds my fascination. But out of the corner of my eye I see the mass deconstruction of all sorts of things, that then will be reconstructed in some new way, yet to be discovered.
Exciting, confusing… wishing I could be something quantum, and allow myself to follow both paths, simultaneously, intensely and totally… but I find myself flitting from one to the other, getting an idea, writing it down, drawing, but in the process of drawing see something else across the room, across the other side of my brain. (SQUIRREL!!)
The workings of the artist’s brain are fascinating, which is why I love to read these blogs. Some are very similar to me – Sophie Cullinan and I wondered if we might have been separated at birth… I bet we could happily slip into each other’s work space and carry on working, finding little mutually admired treasures along the way. Others have similar starting points, then take them on paths that wouldn’t have occurred to me. Others make work that I think is astonishingly beautiful, but I have no clue, following their particular process, how they got there (Marion Michell, Anthony Boswell). Some, it is like reading a foreign language (David Riley sometimes) so I keep going back to see if I get it yet.
(I see just this very minute, before I post, that Kate Murdoch has commented on Sophie’s blog about being distracted… another common thread then….)
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2544868/ – Bo Jones
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2268962/ – Sophie Cullinan
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2157883/ – Marion Michell
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2655324/ – David Riley
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2294750/ – Anthony Boswell
