whatdoeselectricitylooklike

A day at Suffolk Show on the SZC stand.  It was quite a surprise to turn up and find a large picture of me on the stand. In amongst the incredibly professionally printed display and children’s colouring in activity I decided to ask the public What does electricity look like? I spent the day finding answers from young people through drawing. I noticed that there was a point (around 4/5 years old) when drawings that attempted to capture what is quite an almost impossible act, that of drawing something that we cannot see, where the actual feeling or experience of electricity turns to drawings of circuit boards and other examples of what we use it for. education…... don’t you love how it changes the mind. I had some extraordinary conversations with the public – about creating sculpture in the brain, realigning neurons in the brain as an artwork and how design works when attempting to provide solutions within restricted spaces – fascinating. Suffolk Show throws up lots of questions and a few answers.

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alongside attending the Private View of the Textile Design student show at CraftCo http://www.craftco.co.uk/exhibitions.html it was a great weekend of walking and watching film.  Silence http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 is a stunningly relentless beautifully brutal  film which will have you discussing the idea and point of religion for a long time. American Pastoral was a favourite book one summer holiday so the film was going to have to work hard to fulfil expectations. Unfortunately it didn't.   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376479/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I recommend the book. A week of interviewing potential new students and teaching ahead with a briefing for BA3b at NUA which I have filled with memes and gifs http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/briefing-for-ba3b and then onto Leeds to see some experimental dance http://www.yorkshiredance.com/sketch (looking forward to Christopher Owen - In The Shadow Of The Penis) and also a couple of exhibitions while also dropping in on clerk 37 https://soundcloud.com/clerk37