I.F.F.W. (Ideas for future work)
I have written this little abbreviation in my sketchbooks for years. I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually gone through with a single one of them. So I got thinking, are they really ideas for future work, or just things I’d like to do if I wasn’t worried about continuity? Because these ideas are usually so different from my practice, it’s easy to become worried about tangential works, as opposed to a steady stream of intense, well-researched, consistent work. Perhaps they are my stupid works, my dumb, empty unthinking works.
But is that such a bad thing?
Here’s a few I.F.F.W.’s
– Selection of cut throat razors, named and painted with the personalities of close friends.
-Film the destruction of my favourite painting I have made to date
– Record cicadas, play once every 13 years.
– Set up wooden chair with noose directly above: attempt hanging and await intervention. (keep sharp knife in pocket to cut noose in case of emergency)
– Move to Colonsay, document life on the island, record sounds.
etc, etc.
Maybe one day I’ll actually go through will all of them all at once, and call the series: Future works, but that’s just another I.F.F.W……..
