busybusybusy

A busy week - a great meeting at Aldeburgh hospital means that the project is almost over by the printing and attaching it to the wall. 2 days of intense workshops with all 3 years of Textile Design students – 10 one-hour workshops in 2 days with an exhibition, one was 60 drawings in 60 mins, it led to iterative thinking and reflection. Onto screens – finished La Mesías and Last Seen - 2 of the most gruelling series I have ever watched, but worth it – you will be changed. I want you back – you know where this is going from the off.

afoundtextthatwasn'tlostjustmisscomicated.

found poem created wilst listening to presentations at NanoDTC last week

A found text that wasn't lost just misscomicated. 

 

Are you solving?

or

Are you created methods for understanding? 

 

Are you making supercells relaxed?

Is your learning building on foundations?

 

Are you looking? 

Have you built a map of complexity?

 

We are exploring the energy landscape

Driving electrostatically towards unstable polarons in oxygen - (creating bling worms)

 

We are vacancy

Beyond the crystal field 

Searching for defected structures 

and

the impact of electron holes 

 

Are you relaxed?

Is your feedback relevant?

Is your behaviour chaotic?

Are you delayed by time?

 

We are woven together - drowning in bulk looking for defects.

Defects make or break functionality.

We are chaotic

We are emerging 

We are active and disordered

 

Where is the beginning?

When does one thing become another

Where is the edge?

 

This is important.

 

we are delayed by time, but

defined by laws.

 

I am told that life, the idea of, is a sliding scale but dependent strongly on initial conditions. 

 

Boundaries define us

But are 

Topographically unstable

 

Are you self-similar?

Have you discovered your individual uniqueness?

Are you taking notes?

Are you hear?

wearebackinsciartworld

So after 10 years I was back at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge - very other - like a muscle memory I arrived at the station and retraced all my cycle cut-throughs as if it was yesterday. The space is the same, but surrounded by very shiney beautiful new buildings, in one of which I experienced an experimental sound piece over lunch. NanoDTC is a space very dear to my heart, where I first started working in a science context, which led me to so many wonderful people in tremendously interesting places and ultimately to Richard and Leigh and Synthetic Anatomy at Kings. A day of posters, talks and workshops - truly inspirational. The students are thoughtful and intelligent, always up for thinking laterally and creative problem solving. I ran a couple of workshops focusing on taxonomy, genetics and storytelling. It was a great to make art/science connections and to rethink my own practice as a result. When asked what complexity is their drawings were interesting in that the images resembled the ones drawn by under 7s when asked to draw energy as part of the Sizewell residency. Meanwhile onto screens – just started Last seen – harrowing but intriguing enough to continue. Spa Weekend - what was I thinking?

assaultedbysound

Yarmonics – a day created by original projects, what a fabulous day in Great Yarmouth, being gloriously assaulted by sound. Starting on wasteland with the disturbing (in a good way) @ye_yu_fam and leaving the stunning space that is @hippodromegy blinking into the dusk after being dealt with by @russellhaswell_real with @johnthemodulator and @brainwavesarebetterthanprerms wove narratives in Pauper Palace not to forget the awesome @hannannannanananannnn and @reganalana – can’t wait for the next one.  Meanwhile careful of the art. Onto screens – just started Last seen – harrowing but intriguing enough to continue.

ongoingongoing

Steaming ahead with many projects – NanoDTC Autum school preparations are underway, the latest iteration of the Aldeburgh Hospital florals has been created, and work has started on the mountain of bureaucracy that is teaching. Onto screens – Reacher Season 4 – more of the same but even more so. Started to watch La Mesías, quite possibly it has the most disturbing character on screen I have ever come in to contact with….ever! Just finished Middle of Colin from Accounts – light relief embedded into will-they-won’t-they tragedy and The Whisper Man – stressful but with DeNiro in fine form.

meetingsandworkandmeetingsabout work

A week back! As ever it’s a little bit of a culture clash going back to work but the work at the hospital is going well and conversations around projects NanoDTC, Bench, and Synthetic Anatomy are progressing. At Norwich University of the Arts we are preparing the rooms for the students and rewriting course documents and timetables. The latest show at the art station is great – an art/craft extravaganza with folds and pleats. Onto screens – One night only – odd premise but fun.

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