paperdialoguesembeddedmessagesandexchanges

A quick photographic performance in response to thoughts about the hands in paintings observed at the Prado. The idea of the hidden, paper dialogues, embedded messages and exchanges were in my thoughts. Onto screens - Started to watch Extrapolations – it demonstrates a devastating trajectory for us if we continue the path of climate destruction. Binged Beckham in two nights, such a strange production, at the one moment light but then with undertones of dark(ish). Stopped A Haunting in Venice after 20 minutes, great scenery.

lisbonandmagic

Whenever I’m in Lisbon I head for the Gulbenkian and this painting - Les Bretonnes au Pardon by Dagnan Bouveret. There is something about the crisply folded starched headdresses and the women’s faces looking out from the past. I have always wondered what was on the spire and I have just found out that it was festive flags. Check it out here. One can’t help but be blown away by the tiles on the buildings whilst waking between churches and art galleries, eating various versions of salted cod. Saturday night went to see The Making of Pinocchio by Cade and MacAskill was extraordinary https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/project/the-making-of-pinocchio/ highly recommended – a fabulous story told with great props and sets.

foldfoldedfold

Working on the latest iteration of folded structures that explore the processes around receptor pharmacology. Thinking about the physical possibilities of working with affordance forces, multiple connections, and cause and effect. How to make the structure out of a single sheet of material, eventually creating a template that could be emailed. Meanwhile screens – Five days at Memorial is a relentless story of misguided misery. Words on Bathroom walls is a relentless story of mental health. Funny Pages is a relentless tale of the oddness of the teenage search for independence. Stay the night is a relentless tale of opposites attract and has a beautifully scripted conversation in a bar about burgers that is not about burgers.