I got back from the mini-residency in the Forest Studio in the King’s Wood yesterday feeling relatively upbeat about what I’d managed to do. Day one felt a bit unproductive so I was glad that there was going to be a day two; nonetheless I managed a drawing or two and captured some go-pro footage.
Day two felt better. I was up early, walked the dog before breakfast and videoed the log splitters. It struck me that there was a rhythm to their work which was interesting to explore and that this idea of rhythm relates to other rhythmic patterns. I was beginning to feel that this other/in-between space was no longer as ‘other’as it was on the previous day and that what I needed also to do was to consider in greater depth the relationship of the embodied experience of space that is not addressed or not directly addressed in Foucault’s concept of heterotopias. This paragraph is an extract from the presentation I will be giving on Friday at UCA Canterbury.
I also spent the day making some prints. I used a gelli plate for the first time and considering the state of my hands, this was a really good option.
I rather like this one:
The studio itself was pretty comfortable and luckily nice and warm. I’m hoping we get a chance to do more work there.
