A fascinating session at Kings, working with Jon Armstrong enabled us to explore magic within a scientific context – thinking about the magic we all have, thinking about what constitutes magic - the information or secrets that we have accumulated over our practice. Reflecting on the session both in and on the moment and it gets me to thinking about the unseen, the value of stillness – the idea of direction and gesture. It will be interesting to embed these ideas into my day to day teaching as well as rethinking my approach to the studio and making. Reflecting on the idea of the secret took me to craft and the factory. How the experience of working within a scientific field has informed and influenced my making is something I’m constantly thinking about – it happens almost by osmosis – how new ideas have transformed my approach rather than thinking of the work being directly an illustration. The current 3D work explores the seen and unseen, the process of the body as an idea of the internal/external seen simultaneously. Something there and not there, fixed in the moment, the work itself and the idea of it changes as you move around the piece, in that timeframe it exists but it can shift form in a heartbeat, unfixed. This fluidity of thinking shifts away from a need to give objects fixed meaning, a move away from focusing on the object. The craft of 3D printing, using and thinking about the process, to go beyond seeing it as a tool to use, to manufacture, and to use it to explore ideas rather than a means to an end, creating rather than documenting, developing a dialogue with the machine, a language. Meanwhile I managed to see Imi Knoebel’s exhibition ‘Once Upon a Time’ at White Cube Bermondsey which was bright with possibilities. Leah Gordon’s extraordinary photographs Kanaval at Ed Cross Fine Art are extraordinary and mostly disturbing. Onto screens – Megan – disturbing in an OMG AI is taking over. Nolly – disturbing in a wasn’t the past terrible way. Infamously in love – disturbing in a tragic way. Banshee of Inisherin - disturbing in quiet dark way.
