Sick-bed television was a must, and on good recommendation, and cos I keep finding books with tabs in about him in the library, and his stuff is good, I watched the BBC documentary on Anish Kapoor.
His sculptures are hard to not like I think, obviously large and not particularly narrative theyre just eye candy really, in my opinion. He has a massive team of people working for him, wowee, and a lot of resources and materials at his disposal. Everyone seems to work so hard and maticulously.
Two particular quotes appealed to my working brain: "objects behave in a very similar way, the skin of an object tells you about its history, materialrity, it's physicalness, and the skin is often an illusion" This idea of the objects skin having a narrative and an informative element excites me a little, the idea of it being an illusion also is interesting, the outer physicalness is often different to what is below the surface, the essence and reality of the object is not just about its outer appearance.
"just as you cant make something beautiful, or set out to, you also cant set out to make something spiritual, what you can do, is recognise that it might be there. It normally has to do with not having too much to say, there seems to be space for the viewer, and that seems to be something that we recognise as spiritual, and its all about space."
"the route to meaning might not be direct" His ideal's seem interesting, he's not trying to preach something to everyone or to be loud or give out a particular message, he says he's just creating sculptures that allow for interaction and insight, which I find really interesting, particularly in relation to my work at the moment.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday's Confusing Numbers
Collecting, collecting collecting. Slim Pickings in the History section today. Germany and WW2 mustn't be a very popular subject at this time of year.
History students are MESSY too, disgraceful.
Numbers have had to be brought into the conclusion today. A conversation with a lunatic and some custard creams meant my brain got disengaged today and panic and disorder really set in. Numbering the tabs is the only way im going to keep on top of which one is from where if theyre going to be displayed up on the wall in the way they are.
That is All.
History students are MESSY too, disgraceful.
Numbers have had to be brought into the conclusion today. A conversation with a lunatic and some custard creams meant my brain got disengaged today and panic and disorder really set in. Numbering the tabs is the only way im going to keep on top of which one is from where if theyre going to be displayed up on the wall in the way they are.
That is All.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tuesday 19th. A good day
Today I had my head well and truly stuck in some books. I don't think I've ever been so far in the zone, to the extent where time flies by and it ends up being 6.00 by the time you decide to leave, and only then because you've been coaxed out of my little bubble to persue a social life (thank god though or I think i'd have never left).
This little one brightened up my day a little bearing the word "ralph"...exciting.
Ive been dealing with the issue of organising these little buggars. I've decided itll be silly not to make a catalogue of the books and names and cross reference to the tabs themselves, it will make the project more acceptable I think. So, I've been counting and referencing through all my lists and tabs to check things are still in order and accountable for, pinning them up in order and keeping track of which is going where. Several times I ended up with total brain fuck, papers all over the place, people asking me questions or talking to me and I'd just loose track, It's becoming my everest trying to keep everything ordered, not my usual thing at all.
Odder do the best sweet potato chips in town, moustaches are back and I finally managed to keep a pair of 3D glasses, skills.
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This little one brightened up my day a little bearing the word "ralph"...exciting.
Ive been dealing with the issue of organising these little buggars. I've decided itll be silly not to make a catalogue of the books and names and cross reference to the tabs themselves, it will make the project more acceptable I think. So, I've been counting and referencing through all my lists and tabs to check things are still in order and accountable for, pinning them up in order and keeping track of which is going where. Several times I ended up with total brain fuck, papers all over the place, people asking me questions or talking to me and I'd just loose track, It's becoming my everest trying to keep everything ordered, not my usual thing at all.
Odder do the best sweet potato chips in town, moustaches are back and I finally managed to keep a pair of 3D glasses, skills.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Everything I Have
My life has been a wash of objects recently. Even the word "objects" is starting to feel a bit obsolete and overused in my vocabulary at the moment, I'm wishing there were a few more synonyms for the word "objects"...."items", "things", "matter", "stuff"...blargh! Maybe ill just invent some that reflect my daily poetic level and relevance to the "matter" in my life.
Today, I found an arteest, Simon Evans who has created some very interesting work that involves all the shinanigains (objects) in his life, literally! My eye was immediately drawn to his work "Everything I Have" probably because of the manner in which he has displayed every single shinanigain (object) he owns. Documented with care, love, precision, like an archive of his life, he provides me with this:
About the work, I found the following quote by "an expert from the show's press release" (not name worthy?!)
"Simon Evans’ delicate text-based works are collaged and assembled from prosaic materials including found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white out. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony. With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope"
How very precise and important, I love how he has reacted to the shinanigains (objects) that have made up his life, they are laid out bare for us all to see and it just seems really honest, what could be more honest and realistic than displaying everything you own? I would try it, but patience is not my virtue. The way he has displayed them though reminds me of how I have started to display my paper tabs. Maybe a systematic approach like this gives each item time to be important and seperate from the other, and maybe a level or order and organisation can make things seperate from the chaos. Afterall, time and care have been taken to collect them it is only right that we retain a sense of calm?
Today, I found an arteest, Simon Evans who has created some very interesting work that involves all the shinanigains (objects) in his life, literally! My eye was immediately drawn to his work "Everything I Have" probably because of the manner in which he has displayed every single shinanigain (object) he owns. Documented with care, love, precision, like an archive of his life, he provides me with this:
About the work, I found the following quote by "an expert from the show's press release" (not name worthy?!)
"Simon Evans’ delicate text-based works are collaged and assembled from prosaic materials including found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white out. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony. With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope"
How very precise and important, I love how he has reacted to the shinanigains (objects) that have made up his life, they are laid out bare for us all to see and it just seems really honest, what could be more honest and realistic than displaying everything you own? I would try it, but patience is not my virtue. The way he has displayed them though reminds me of how I have started to display my paper tabs. Maybe a systematic approach like this gives each item time to be important and seperate from the other, and maybe a level or order and organisation can make things seperate from the chaos. Afterall, time and care have been taken to collect them it is only right that we retain a sense of calm?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Library Tuesday
Tuesday was always going to be the day to kick my arse into a better gear.
Last night I had a revalation.....My paper tabs were in the studio on the wall (not like they would have moved somehow) and the radiator was miraculously switched on and working. The tabs were blowing from the air of the radiator and it gave me a little epiphony. This was how I felt like I see the tabs really. To me they are posessed by their knowledge but other people think im mad. The breeze was making them spontaneously flutter like they were alive "buzzing" i think is a term i have used in the past to describe them. Maybe this is all they need to try and convey my view of them, a little fluttering.
Last night I had a revalation.....My paper tabs were in the studio on the wall (not like they would have moved somehow) and the radiator was miraculously switched on and working. The tabs were blowing from the air of the radiator and it gave me a little epiphony. This was how I felt like I see the tabs really. To me they are posessed by their knowledge but other people think im mad. The breeze was making them spontaneously flutter like they were alive "buzzing" i think is a term i have used in the past to describe them. Maybe this is all they need to try and convey my view of them, a little fluttering.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Da Vinci Exhibition Design
I know Michael Howard definately would not classify for one of my favourite and most interesting people on earth. Giving him a second chance, he proceeded to make me dozy once again, a very clever man but in my brain its a little too dull for me to enjoy. However, eventhough I wasnt interested in the MOSI Da Vinci Exhibition, I ended up submitting work to it anyway. I figured the brief was pretty good and pretty vacant and some things I'd had in my head when thinking about "objects" for such a long time fitted in. So, reluctantly my pen to paper technique just about scraped my own vague approval and heres my grand design and submission. Maybe I should be an inventor.....doubtful.
In my mind they are a pretty straight forward invention. Clearly, they are a contraption through which you can gaze into someone elses eyes and they yours. They were, in my train of thought, a response to the idea of objects that are used by two people, the manner through which they are used is a shared experince therefore the relationship with the object is meant to also be associated with another, maybe special, person. Playing with the idea of connotations.
In my mind they are a pretty straight forward invention. Clearly, they are a contraption through which you can gaze into someone elses eyes and they yours. They were, in my train of thought, a response to the idea of objects that are used by two people, the manner through which they are used is a shared experince therefore the relationship with the object is meant to also be associated with another, maybe special, person. Playing with the idea of connotations.
Monday Monday
a ususal monday meeting: 1.30
Nicky Douthwaite, who i'd had quite a good chat with two weeks ago while she was putting up her pictures of Kimmi Reikkonen, David Coultard and Jenson Button in the link, arrived to give us a pep talk. She seems to have done so well for herself, not only fulfilling her dreams but being a big success too. She definately seemed a good source of inspiration and she emphasised the importance of working as hard as possible this year. Kind of makes you feel guilty to your own work wehen you have a job and friends to see, definately makes me question my priorities.
then we wrote poems for eachother.
Nicky Douthwaite, who i'd had quite a good chat with two weeks ago while she was putting up her pictures of Kimmi Reikkonen, David Coultard and Jenson Button in the link, arrived to give us a pep talk. She seems to have done so well for herself, not only fulfilling her dreams but being a big success too. She definately seemed a good source of inspiration and she emphasised the importance of working as hard as possible this year. Kind of makes you feel guilty to your own work wehen you have a job and friends to see, definately makes me question my priorities.
then we wrote poems for eachother.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Drawn
Today I tried to do some drawing.
It's not taken me 4 years of art college to realise that I have definate problems visualising through the medium of a pen or pencil, writing and talking have always been my method. Still, sometimes I think i can get into the right frame of mind and get something, eventhough it's usually of little use either to the eye or to my drawing self-esteem. But it still doesn't stop me thinking that one day ill be able to put pen to paper and impress myself out of the blue, it's something I really want to be good at I just think I lack the confidence to trust my hand and my eye.
I tried to be methodological about it today. I was enthused when I saw a copy of a book by David Shrigley "Red Book"
I think he uses his witty observations to do what I want to be able to do, visualise and humour, at the same time! A genious.
So, I thought, if I made some observations (left vague for maximum options) I could work with my little skill on content rather than ability. I managed a few doodles and kept up the momentum for about an hour. Hopefully I'll come back to them in a few days and be interested to give it another go. I think it's a step in at least some direction. I'd like to be able to use drawing more in my practice and general life, I am meant to be an artist afterall.
It's not taken me 4 years of art college to realise that I have definate problems visualising through the medium of a pen or pencil, writing and talking have always been my method. Still, sometimes I think i can get into the right frame of mind and get something, eventhough it's usually of little use either to the eye or to my drawing self-esteem. But it still doesn't stop me thinking that one day ill be able to put pen to paper and impress myself out of the blue, it's something I really want to be good at I just think I lack the confidence to trust my hand and my eye.
I tried to be methodological about it today. I was enthused when I saw a copy of a book by David Shrigley "Red Book"
I think he uses his witty observations to do what I want to be able to do, visualise and humour, at the same time! A genious.So, I thought, if I made some observations (left vague for maximum options) I could work with my little skill on content rather than ability. I managed a few doodles and kept up the momentum for about an hour. Hopefully I'll come back to them in a few days and be interested to give it another go. I think it's a step in at least some direction. I'd like to be able to use drawing more in my practice and general life, I am meant to be an artist afterall.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Monday Monday, 2 Nov (Journal info)
Today was a day totally FULL of information, bearing the following messages.
Journals
Joy! Choose on presentation, This year it's more of a portfolio journal and a portfolio of images or web show-reel
Its MORE FORMALIZED. Include:
#Review Course Experience, not just the year.
#contextual research
#personal map
#project evaluations, improved ones aswell, not the usual crap!
#professional research and application forms (fuck!)
#Artists Statement (thats right, we are artists)
#content and time
#CV
Become and expert in chosen field. history, technique, issues, research....
Develop technical skills
Think "What do i want to be able to do in 6 months time", go away and LEARN IT!
DONT BE DEFEATED
Always think about the context work will be in, Audience, Function, Place.
End of Digest.
Journals
Joy! Choose on presentation, This year it's more of a portfolio journal and a portfolio of images or web show-reel
Its MORE FORMALIZED. Include:
#Review Course Experience, not just the year.
#contextual research
#personal map
#project evaluations, improved ones aswell, not the usual crap!
#professional research and application forms (fuck!)
#Artists Statement (thats right, we are artists)
#content and time
#CV
Become and expert in chosen field. history, technique, issues, research....
Develop technical skills
Think "What do i want to be able to do in 6 months time", go away and LEARN IT!
DONT BE DEFEATED
Always think about the context work will be in, Audience, Function, Place.
End of Digest.
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