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Working on a new strand of work – in a very meta way I’m projecting films of my hands manipulating the articulated structures onto 3D structures that have been developed from the initial investigation. Some breathing in – London - October Gallery - El Anatsui. Brunei Gallery at SOAS - extraordinary endeavours. British Library - treasures. Barbican Curve - Julianknxx. White Cube - Gormley. Raven Row - Lutz Bacher. Spruth Mangers - Fischli & Weiss. Sadie Coles - Diago Marcon. Vitrine - Luis Enrique Zela-Koort. Hauser and Wirth - Avery Singer. Then we have Bond Street Windows - Channel and Dior. The Gormley show is exceptional, I especially loved the realignment and size of the doorways! Onto screens – The Wolfs Call – the soundtrack is stunning, the foley artists having a ball. Freelance – were all having a ball making this film.

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The break has given some time to reflect on the recent structural pieces I've been working on. Documenting them through filming enables another kind of understanding away from the haptic. 

The Lighthouse was all look at how odd we can make something and don't we know it but worth it for the soundtrack. Adam Driver was worth watching in The Report, a depressing indictment that people and whole governments can get away with bad things. Driver appeared to be acting when doing nothing in the procedural elements of the film. Uncut Gems is one long shouting experience. Long Shot is  okay-ish but just not quite funny enough and I know complaining about gross out issues in a Seth Rogan film is to miss the point but.....

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working on a series of new moving images - the nano project is turning into a film project at the moment - both from the creation of gifs in Photoshop and also animation through sketch-up.

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Aldeburgh Lookout http://www.aldeburghbeachlookout.com/ has the wonderful Altea Grau Vidal working in residence – see some of her work here  http://alteagrau.com/ and http://alteagrau.blogspot.co.uk/ Altea is a MA Book Art Alumni who explores the space of text on and in the page, looking at our relationship to it and in the process creating exquisite work. The Private views at the lookout are on Saturdays at 11-4pm, drinks 12-2pm – I was looking forward to seeing how she worked with a seascape space that is part of my life and the work was even better than I imagined. The site specific nature of the installation meant that the inclusion of the towers surrounds became part of the piece. The duality of the book was much in evidence and layers upon layers explored through and within the moving image projecting onto the double page spread. Really quite sublime.

Friday afternoon was spent with Adam Collier www.BeautyandTheBear.co.uk filming the house for a RIBA award the house is up for. There are to be a series of short films presented as part of the awards evening. I was also interviewed for a film that RIBA Suffolk are making to encourage people to become clients of architects – why is design important to me? What did you learn from working with an architect? – killer questions but good.