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off to the lab
I gave them my labelled sample bags a couple of days ago, and they put them into concentrated acid to dissolve them. Now they are dissolved and ready to work on. We prepare three chromatography slides and add a drop […]
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Actually…
I don’t think this is a digression, this interest in what the items are made of. It is linked to the idea about everything we have being made of other things. And those things all come from the earth, either […]
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Digression
Thinking about making something else out of my 19th century metal precipitates a question ‘what are my artefacts made of?’ I’m not sure it matters, but I really want to know. I can guess from looking that they are probably […]
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Made of other things
This heading is the one which seems to sum up the process. I am making something new out of other things. Every item we have is made of other things. The clothes I am wearing are made of natural or […]
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Postcards
I have a collection of postcards built up over many years, of pictures which interest me. So I sort through them and pick out ones that seem connected to the embryonic ideas floating around my mind. Then I look at […]
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No idea what this is about
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Because I was a scientist
for many years, I photograph each piece carefully so I have a record of it. The detachment of this process also helps me to think of them as objects and to consider which will be best suited to the ideas […]
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So ‘What’s next?’ is I wait a little
I also spend time thinking about how to break them up. Grinding up ceramic had seemed a relatively simple proposition. Breaking up pieces of metal presents more of a challenge to someone with a primary practice of performance and photography.
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What next?
So here are my artefacts, from which I have committed to make a new piece of work, by breaking them up to use as raw material. I read the letter to the artists that came with them and am a […]
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What’s inside?
So I open my parcel, in some trepidation. I am very excited. It’s come all that way! What’s it going to be? It’s Priority Mail, very well wrapped and I can’t get in. There’s a letter to the artist, which […]
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What Next?
So then we had the post mortem and the ‘What next ?’ conversation. The characterisations are sound and need filling out and heightening by adding another layer of narrative, such as a celebration or a heartbreak. Then we can go back […]
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Public Performance
Now the focus has been on more research, assembling props and refining performance details. Research came from lots of different sources: George Anelay, the Director of Archaeology, Stuart Needham, the Subject Specialist for the period, Kathrin Pieren, Petersfield Museum Curator, […]