Saturday was busy in waves, but especially full during the afternoon. Gave my mini talk on art maths chaos and order a couple of times and in the afternoon Teresa set up her camera kit in the staff room to film my talk. Worked far better without my notes! Yesterday Teresa (Albor) edited the talk and added many relevant images to it and really adding enormously to my words. I was surprised and delighted by the results. Especially as I am usually not at ease at all in front of a camera. The video comes across much more clearly than me doing it fresh each time talking to people. And when i do it live it is never only 3 minutes – my aim to keep it short. Short because I know when I’m considering stopping to watch a video in display, if it is too long I feel I don’t want to watch a screen much at all as I could do that at home. (Although of course, there’ll be footage exclusive to certain places)
So today i expect I will be finishing cleaning up the mechanical spit, encouraging more loans/gifts of small objects and generally talking about the project to curious passers by. Also talking my chaos order talk /setting it up on video as appropriate.
I am treating the cleaning and drawing of objects as a meditative activity to raise my awareness of the place and to enable me to notice things i otherwise wouldn’t. On Saturday It was too busy for this. Teresa did start a log book of objects, which we’ll continue with today.
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The position of the little museum is busy and less condusive to contemplative drawing than xpected. Maybe need to change my approach. I would like to collect more questions in my book and so i will have to make sure I bring it up more and maybe have the talk/ video more visible. Perhaps arrange the questions so they are a question per page rather than one after the other. Also may be an idea to share the video online via facebook and twitter especially. Perhaps email friends and family for their questions.
Could just talk about chaos and order or a part of my talk in conversation with people and then ask them to write questions, or me write down questions they ask.
I’d like to receive:
Lots of questions.
Link vimeo video into blog.
Whole little museum is seeing what people think should be shown in a museum. What do people collect. I.e to hang on to the feeling they got in a past time / childhood.
