work
on the structures for Goldlay Square progresses - the choices are now finding
locations within the plan - I love the action of positioning - working within the digital space - moving something not yet
made within a space that does not exist which will impact on people's lives -
notions of responsibility and respect are running high today.
it's
been a busy week teaching on the Textile Design Course at NUA - year 1 arrived and
their 1 day project was full of colour and surface - what is textiles? - what
isn't it? without it you would be alone naked in a field.... to illustrate the
overwhelming importance of textiles in the first day we covered fine art,
illustration, fashion, architecture, interior design and fashion communication!
the new instagram # is #nuatextiles year 3 had a whole day of year and project
briefings, NSS briefing and Learning outcomes briefing but I tried to deliver
it through work-shopping - the first project is interiors https://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/003a-25-09-17-briefing-ba3a-project-2-interiors
so am looking forward to some exciting work.
A
wonderfully creative day in Chelmsford yesterday - starting out with a site visit to test
out the full-size model of the proposed sculpture. Envisioning is an
interesting activity and a designer has to have lots - the site has its
buildings 'foot printed' with most of the 2nd floors built so you can get begin
to get a real feel for the site - the
spaces within, between and around the buildings. I was pleased that the scale
of the proposed pieces appear to 'work'. But by getting onto the site the idea
of the pieces unfolding up and around the buildings became an obvious
development.
Part
two was a meeting to discuss the initial ideas and to iron out any issues that
came to light within the build, design, installation and placing of the work. It's
a kind of pre-mortem - I love the idea of working within 'negative space' of
possibilities - not in the negative sense but in a positive anticipating problem way -
working with the possible by carving away what is not 'right'. The meeting went
well and it looks as if I will get to make 'giant' steel books structures and
'scatter' them over the site - sooooooo excited......
a
morning of thinking about scale whilst admiring a sample for the Goldlay Square
work. The overall scale of the pieces in relation to the pattern is interesting
to consider and has been highlighted after getting a piece of steel plasma
cut. Really pleased with the sample, it has a sense of flow and all the
connections that I have been inspired by are embedded within the work.
just back from an
excellent afternoon working at Kings in the capacity of a consultant on a new
module for the anatomy school - synthetic anatomy. How the arts think, make, reflect,
and evaluate was really valued and it was great to share stories and experiences
between the arts practitioners on the team and also to consider how to support
the medical tutors and then the anatomy students in the pursuit of new skills around
lateral thinking and failing triumphantly. Meanwhile at NUA the rooms are ready
and the timetable is set - all we need now are students - the year ahead is
going to be most excellent.
starting next to a pool and continuing in my studio the thinking around Goldlay Square is becoming focused - there is still a lot of flexibility in the choice and the proposed construction will enable the making to be creative up to the last moment
- check out a listing of my work on page 13, also the artist book yearbook http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/publications/artists-book-yearbook.html which is as ever packed with excellent texts and useful and informed information about current practice - there is a 6 page article about the work I've been involved in with
NanoDTC - https://unfoldingthinking.blogspot.co.uk/
meanwhile
8
days sitting next to a pool enabled time for some reading - Ali Smith - There but for the - a fractured layered
thoughtful guide through time, Ian McEwan - Nutshell
- laugh out loud solid crafted text, Naomi Alderman
- Power - beware, a potential dystopia fable that puts up a mirror
to the society we live in, Matt Haig - The Humans
- a story to enable us to rethink the world around us, David Grossman - a horse walks into a bar - you are in the
presence of a tragic story that needs to be told with some excellent jokes,
finally two books a little close to home..... Philip
Roth - The plot against America - a what if book ....what if Nazis
took over America? Lionel Shriver - The Mandibles
- a what if book......what if America had a financial crash and old money and
old power floated to the top?
