The fact that I’m writing this blog should indicate I’m relatively happy with text, in fact I’ve spent most of my time at UWE trying to integrate text into my practice or actually making the text the work (as in the haikus). Last October I attended a workshop at the Arnolfini linked to the Museum Show in the gallery. I’m now thinking it was a seminal event for me as the critical exploration of the idea of ‘the object’ and ‘display’ has made me think deeply how to ‘present’ my work.
In this context the perceptual encounter with the ‘objects’ I’m currently making will be enhanced by ‘writing the object’, preparing a narrative that will position/locate/label/index/edit/survey them. And as a curatorial proposition it could be entirely fictional…
At the same time I have started work on some ceramics, the one thing I said I would never do. It’s strangely liberating and exciting to be working on something different, even though advice might be for a safer option at this stage in a degree. Will it all work? Will my pieces attain the magic of objecthood?
