affordancetheory

Working on various iterations of 3D printed flexible structures that can be manipulated in the hand. Starting with quick sketches to make sense of how they might work but the affordance of the structures can only really be understood when the structures are actually printed and in the hand. https://www.learning-theories.com/affordance-theory-gibson.html Onto screens – Tokoyo – Leos Carax, Michel Gondry and Bong Joon Ho have created an extraordinary triptych of a movie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1  Titane – too slasher too brutal for me.

surroundedbythepast

Set out to see the Turner Prize at the Herbert Art Gallery – interesting challenge to hang process, collaborative community engaged work in a gallery and even though I wanted Black Obsidian Sound System to win Array Collective created an interesting space and set out an eerie feel. I spend several hours surrounded by the past looking at old photos, me and my best friend Gary Lewis, two weddings - my Aunt Floss and Aunt Beat, a car that my grandparents were driving when hit by a coal lorry, a now and then photo via street view and a gif of the space my house used to occupy. Meanwhile assessments are over, and Christmas is almost here.

potterswheelasturntable

Editioning the work - book as image as book.  A busy day in London – first up - in Whitechapel to check out material possibilities – lots of thinking….’African’ textile shops to think about pattern and meaning… and my next shirt material, 4D model shop unsure how they will fare with the onset of 3D printers. Theaster Gates at Whitechapel is sublime - great work that connects his past to his present through pottery. The film is just beautiful - potters wheel as turntable.....Unsure about the show at Sadie Cole HQ. Tate Britain was interesting - The Duveen galleries are full of noise, projections, lights, moving images and objects but it's a little uuuummmh. I spent time with the 'Seagram' Rothko's thinking about my younger self who had sat with them as an art student in the 80s. Whilst wandering the spaces I came across one of my all-time 'favourite' images - Donald Rodney - In the house of my father, a model made of skin grafts created whilst attempting to deal with sickle cell which went onto kill him. onto screens - Tick Tick Boom - fun and clever Get back - extraordinarily dull and yet  simultaneously mesmerizing.