Busy times, getting used to being back in my own studio after such a long time. It is wonderful. Despite the fact that I thought that I would be revisiting the work I was making with dolls, I am continuing with the drawings I was working on in Berlin. I realise that focus is something I struggle with, this has meant that I have decided to “Focus” and develop the new work while it is still fresh.
This activity has been driven in part by the fact that we have our annual Open Studios this weekend, this year we are once again part of London’s Open House Weekend. In short it means a lot more visitors than usual, Open Studios become very tiring after time, loyal as friends are they do not want to troop along year in year out. Therefore an extra effort is required to bring the latest set of drawings to some sort of conclusion. I know that those people who come to see what I have been doing in Berlin will want to see this work. Also, to be perfectly honest, in addition to the larger drawings, I have been making a series of smaller drawings in the vain hope that some of the architectural visitors feel like opening their wallets.
Any way preparations are under way and photos of beautiful drawings presented in a beautiful space will follow.
I have also been putting together ideas for the Pavilion back in Berlin at Milchhof. As usual fiddling about trying to arrange these ideas clearly and in a suitable emailable formatt took more time it should have, let us hope that we will all be using cloud technology soon. But like all writing about and collating of work, it has been very useful in trying to find out what I am actually trying to do at the moment. This process included trying out some mirrored video ideas, still very early days, but there is a lot of potential with these I think.
But it is the progress of the drawings that fascinates me, it still feels new to be working in this way, allowing the work to develop in along a less intellectual path. But I feel secure in the knowledge that there is a strong concept underpinning the work. It is also interesting to see how drawing has been fundamental to much of the work that I have made in recent years, rather than earlier works in which I feel as if I had been creating a sculptural illustration of an idea. Work becomes really exiting when the conscious mind takes a bit of a break.
Anyway FOCUS is the word driving the work this week.
Speigalshaal, experiment superimposing images from Charlottenburg and Sans Soucci
