It does seem that I have been a little lax with this blog, too busy since the last entry, the brief period of loneliness and rain has been transplanted by sunshine and visitors. Hence the silence. I feel as if, half way through my time in Berlin I have achieved a lot and the work that I am doing is starting to mean something Until this week I felt that I was just playing around and taking in a lot of new sights and ideas. But today, now the rain has returned, I have stayed in the studio, I pottered and thought and I realised that things are falling into place. I am even starting to work three dimensionally.
I suppose that this is how a residency works. Time out from normal life gives you an opportunity to play around and experiment, without constantly referring to current concerns within your practice. It also gives you the opportunity of adventure each time you leave the studio, even a trip to the supermarket can be interesting and new. Pants and tights seem to turn up in the oddest places, next to the bottled water, before you get to the tinned beans.
Anyway I have established today that several things are taking place in my thinking, resolutions for ideas and projects ranging back to The Char Dham Project are formulating. But also in a very exiting way, new ideas for Berlin have arisen.
There is an exhibition space here at Milchhof that I now have my sights on, and this could form the framework of a new installation. Ever since my visit to Charllottenburg Schloss I have been thinking about reflections. The Pavillion Milchhof is a half glass construction that reflects the world as well as allowing a window into the art. I am watching this space.
The artists here allowed me to put a small drawing into their Sommerhits show, which contained work from many of the Milchhof artists and was curated by Werner Kernebeck. So, in a very minor way my exhibiting history in Berlin has begun.
