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Holding an art practice (lightly)
The final post sent from East Anglia with much appreciation for a 2 week residency with uncertainty. Solitary, but not solitary…company and compatriots in other guises – pebbles, paper, sand, water, vegetables, air and gravity. THE CONTAINERS [or some […]
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Interface
A year ago I added printed text on kelp and then it dried. The surface resembles a woven backing. It is like an interface that is found on the hidden side of a fabric, intended for strengthening, not for show. […]
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Human-vegetable-mineral [iPhone]
The digital realm as a vessel may have served its purpose and is looming in my mind now as a pressure, shifting my focus from process to outcome. Today I wanted to use it to write about this, tomorrow I […]
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Mind the Gap [Basra-Mumbai-Cornwall]
What emerges one day feeds into the next. A series of starting points that form parallel threads crossing or merging unexpectedly. The pebble from yesterday is still in my head, rather than my body. I am minding the gap between […]
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A pebble knocks
A pebble taps at my head The word brain wants to say ‘welcome, come on in’ 2 problems There is no common word language The invitation is irrelevant Rethink Can we communicate via our common elements? What we are made […]
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Clearing
It seemed the most important task today was to clear some space to work after chaos had begun to muddle and disorientate me. It so happened that the walk I took after clearing was itself in the process of clearing. […]
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Adhesive
After a failed attempt yesterday to use homemade glue to hold together a vessel, I chose the word ‘adhesive’ as my starting point and took it for a walk. ADHESIVE: 1 For adhesive that allows repositioning – try gravity – […]
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A vessel for collecting stories
The 2 week residency is in an incredible location – the most westerly house in England. It faces over the sea to Lands End. The South West Coast path heads upward behind the cottage to the summit of Cape Cornwall. […]
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A vessel for collectivities
How would you convey the essence of your Collective? How do your collective endeavours settle in the world and beyond? How do you work symbiotically through differences and challenges? The term Potpourri with its paradoxical meanings seems an apt […]
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Potpourri and Collectivity
An Open Call to Collectives is crisscrossing its way along the digital pathways to gather interest from Artist Collectives across the globe. https://www.experimentalspacecollective.com/potpourriopencall It is an invitation to create a page for a Compendium of Collective Practices, to explore the […]
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The Walk Stitches Places Together
This is walk no. 14 from ‘Walking Beyond Words’. Aya Hastwell who is facilitating the project with me has just returned to her family in Kazakhstan and chose this prompt because of her appreciation of the global connections created […]
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The walk is a library
The prompt for this week’s walk arose out of a conversation with an artist and friend in Turkey (Ceyda Oskay) suggesting that she hand-print letters into a book to form our third poetry collage. We began talking about collaboration and […]