lots of teaching this week from
briefings about the final show with year 3 textile students at NUA (yes its already
that time of year) to a wonderfully intense midterm collaborative session
looking at finished work at Camberwell on the Book Art course. As ever it was
full of exciting, thoughtful and insightful comments - it's a session where the
maker takes notes but does not speak, the work standing on its own without
contextual background to support it - a positive experience for the students
and one that supports and informs my own practice. Then a session on lateral
thinking with year 1 students at NUA it's an attempt to induce a recognition
within students that they are creative powerful people.......creative thinking
within the visual - we control the world - or at least how it looks.
some films - kill or be killed
- a psychological cowbody thriller - odd, dark and gritty. midnight man
- is there a twist there somewhere? just bad on so many levels. The Reunion
- Atertraffen is worth a watch - an 'art film' in the guise of a 'mainstream'
one maybe. After all this okayishness decided to re-watched the game - still
good even after repeated viewing and even knowing where it will take you - a
taught thriller twisting and turning till the end (almost).
still moving
through girls - it gets darker as it moves on - just as everything seems to be
resolved and working and generally okay for the case of characters the
situation is destroyed by the need for a well chosen chunk of 'truth'! - a
break from the 'reality' of New York life is the night manager a 6 part twisting
thriller from John le Carré via
the BBC with all its values intact.
finally - working on which pieces
will be on display as part of the Maxwell Building Inaugural Event, which will take place
on the 7-9 of April. I'm showing the film nanocapesarego which demonstrates some of the capes and the
materials filmed that were used to make the them. Hopefully alongside this I'll
show a couple of the experimental bookwork hand sculptures - I have so many to choose from, as ever I got excited and
just kept making.
