recognisinganddeveloping

Work on the zebra fish roof plate project continues. This time the focus was on restriction and rotation. Holding and manipulating the structures within a framing device changes how the forces connect and dissipate within it, allowing the ability to focus on specific aspects of the structure. The work for Double Elephant this week went well - the session was all about audience(s), recognising and developing your relationship to them. Working with the Miro board between the sessions provides a space to share the work created and then develop dialogues around the student’s practice. Not quite the same as sticking the work on a wall but a digital version of that with its own inherent strengths. Synthetic Anatomy at Kings was interesting as always. The team is so generous with their time and knowledge, the discussions over lunch after the workshops are always full of new ways of thinking. The session looked at and used textile narratives to explore comparative ideas around and within the body. Developing textile stories that illuminate our understanding of the anatomy we inhabit. This will inform their thinking when presenting their table displays that will contain the narrative of their projects and the 3D prints that are at the center of their investigation. Work on the zebra fish roof plate project continues. This time the focus was on restriction and rotation. Holding and manipulating the structures within a framing device changes how the forces connect and dissipate within it, allowing the ability to focus on specific aspects of the structure. Popped into White Cube, Masons Yard. The show by Isamu Noguchi is very beautiful. The ceiling piece in the main space has a stunning rhythmic line, using industrial materials and processes in clever ways. I last saw his work at the foundation in New York in his name, a contemplative, stunning space in the middle an area that was part industrial estate with Costco as neighbors. A small slice of calm occupying a corner of a busy city. https://www.noguchi.org/ Onto screens - working my way through Chloe, a dark, tragic tale that keeps you constantly on edge, you may never trust digital strangers again! The Photograph was a very still film, lots of breathless, endless looking at each other over a jazz soundtrack. Nightmare Alley was sublime, the lighting was superb, every time Kate Blanchett was on screen she was lit like a star of stage and screen from the 50's. The references were thick and fast, repeated viewing is essential. The story is truly harrowing yet there is a message of redemption in there.