Pulling myself to pieces... Smashing the invisible box
20/10/19 How do I begin...if you want me to talk about materiality and process, I will need to know what I am and where I am at in my creativity! For now I have not got a clue, I'm going to begin to focus on things that happen - a lonnnnnnnnnng time ago.
26/10/19 My Dad has died, I feel bad wanting to chant 'ding song the witch is dead...but I finaly feel free! I shall channel these weird and unfamiliar energies though art and capture it onto stills..tiles..kind of small cards - Playing cards of lino...its a good sizze to not incure great price tag of finished artifacts.
31/10/19 A life less ordinalry - A life full of woe. He took away feelings that I would have liked to know...feel...breath!
12/11/19 Exploring the Print sttudio is fantastic - it's like a whole new language to get creative with. The smell in the room of paper and ink is hypnotic.
20/11/19 Lino and the sharpness of the cutting - tool a thing to be scared of! OUCH - The hand that I've been delt.
After discussion with Kathrine poole (WATCH) documentary about fleet street print - http://blog.typoretum.co.uk/2014/08/02/banging-out-fleet-street-remembered/
09/12/19 The hand that I'VE BEEN DEALT seems to be digging deap into my mind and slapping me right in the face
Paula rego exhibition OBEDIENCE AND DEFIANCE National galleries modern2 Edinburgh, is going to make me delve a lot deeper than I thought I was going to FOR ARTS SAKE
5/1/2020 I have to wonder where all these sentences are coming from and what memories are they uncovering! Areality that goes beyond the borders of the frame...of my brain!
16/1/20 Are the momories true...fuck they seem perfectly real. After reading I worry WTF - Exploring...ways in which objects and images from the past embody 'deeply etched' memory.
23/1/20 I continue my quest...My work doesn't offer answers, it aims to question literal and rational meaning. I'm not interested in answers. Just visiting areas of my mind that I had maybe closed off and trapped inside evidence...articfacts of a life LOST
30/1/20 MEMORIES "to scream at" — not to scream before or about, but to scream at...It's interesting to see that 'for me'
7/2/20 Polish artist Weronika Gesicka modifies American stock photography from the 1950s and ’60s, questioning and altering the reality of each captured moment.Weronika’s interpretations explore the stereotypes of an era and radiate a deeper exploration of identity, imperfection, relationships and self-consciousness. I like this way of re-imagining reality. Will this work?
14/2/20 Monoprint - beautiful results after about the 5th runthrough of ink/roller. I prefer as the memory of the roller begins to erase itself and seems to complete the cycle of time and thought held in the action of applying the ink MEMORIES unfurled
28/2/20 I am exploring the letter press It's ace - When I use the printing press I have to add each of the tiniest of metal letters using much hope...as I cannot see the 7pt font (SO) if a person put the type into the wrong box I will easily mistake a p for a b
27/2/20 https://m.facebook.com/teamMPA/ looking into photographs of aged faces...faces that have been seen and done IT
4/3/20 Talked to MOZ and the exhibition is going to run a little longer than originally planned - Sick of being normal...really if you tried really really really hard - you couldn't be more 'normal' in my eyes! I'm sure this feeling feeds into my art, I am NORMAL, well NORMAL FOR ME...aren't I?
13/3/20 BANGFACE DAY...I feel like I shouldn't be going, as I question what the fuck is going on in the world...APOCALYPTIC TIME ARE A COMING...I have to go rave and then I can be safe in the eyes of the almighty raver <3 Will I survive, will I return home in one piece or a swamp of raverygooyness that goes out and forgets to go home.
20/3/20 Just spent the week in isolation...just incase we picked anything nasty up at the rave - really BIG lol head is definitely fuddled from the shape shifting raveness of the weekend and I eeven made a guest appearence on bangface TV
23/3/20 APOCALYPSE - The whole world has gone nuts...taken over our senses! The war of the germ...I HAVE LOO ROLL
29/3/20 The material gets in the way of the flow ... I have begun to notice the speed that I work in ... It is fast urgent and like the message is just ready to spurt out like that of an over ripened ZIT - squwissssssh thrrrrurttttt splash
3/4/20 I'M ON FIRE THE TYPE WRITER IS FAST INSTANT AND MESSAGES MEMORIES AND FEARS FLOOD OUT LIKE A SEA OF SICK CRASHING FORWARD - TSUNAMI STYLE
10/4/20 Malaphor is an informal term for a mixture of two aphorisms, idioms, or clichés (such as "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it"). Also called an idiom blend.12 Feb 2020 https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41957/lets-burn-that-bridge-when-we-come-to-it-is-this-sort-of-idiom-mixing-consi I am becoming obsessed with language and realise I mix it up
16/4/20 MEMORIES - I've forgot more than I ever knew...I LIKE IT THAT WAY
22/4/20 https://www.audible.co.uk/ep/title?asin=B004F1VMO8&source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH101514006S&&ipRedirectOverride=true THE SECRET
1/6/20 First option ... There is a START ... Second option ... A STOP - A really big FUCK OFF FULL STOP - BUT there’s a third option, which is all that is in-between. I am interested in 'all that is in between' all the probilities that we render from WHAT IF - WHY - and - ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?
29/06/20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIQOMP7PwA&feature=youtu.be Martin Creed’s work has been described as a series of exercises in awareness, with the Turner Prize winner suggesting that his art is ‘50% about what I make and 50% about what other people make of it.’ - VIDEO** This film contains footage from Work No. 503 which shows someone being sick.
6/7/2020 Can art be good for you? Art, in one form or another, has been around since the Stone Age, and to this day, museums and galleries welcome hundreds of millions of visitors every year. But why is this? What compels us to make and experience artworks? And is art really good for us? In our continuing series of films, Questions about Art, we explore some frequent musings about art - using questions asked by our audiences. (email: National galleries of Scotland)
10/8/2020 http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/category/film/ “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” I feel like Jack...
“The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.” (Roger Elbert)
30/820 What does the frase FULL STOP MEAN - I am finding in the world of humanity that we are getting annoyed at almost everything...EVEN THE FULL STOP can make a person agressive! see research folder for this date and images saved...differnt sized full stops punctuate the surface = agression in a fuck you kinda way! . means much less than . <--- click here
8/9/20 Sick of Being Normal Q&A Description A gathering of some of the main players from the SOBN project and the SOBN event in February 2020, to talk about the ideas behind the project, how it fits into the wider Pendle Radicals programme and a chance for the audience to ask some questions. Time Sep 18, 2020 08:00 PM
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