diggingthepastnow

What a busy 2 weeks - both pretty full on - a meeting in Hull with Feral Art School about potential possibilities, an evening meeting about Sizewell C to listen to information about the Northern transport situation, 2 days of teaching and a day at Kings - a great synthetic anatomy session about genetics. The trial session around table displays was really successful. It's where we run a workshop in which the whole course is played out from initial ideas and research into iterative making, leading to final displays and along the way touching on group work and narrative story telling. Work for Sizewell C goes well - the future archaeology is working, and the 3D prints look good. This was informed by a superb day finally on site at SZC with the Cotswold archaeology team. They were so generous with their time and knowledge. I'm rethinking my approach to the work I was planning around archaeology - time space layers narrative - the way in which the process of archaeology is documented, and I got to touch very old stuff - most excellent. The week went from amazing to awesome - got invited to create work for the battery of ideas - I get to make a huge hanging thread work that will explore the relationship between my tattoos and images of nuclear atomic existence - really can't wait. This week’s session at kings was interrupted by a group of 10 year olds. Rather that asking what was happening and getting them to leave I got on the mic, stopped the session and organised that the table groups of students explained their projects. This was awesome as incredibly obscure and complex ideas were explained. They had to think about the language they were using for different audiences. There were some totally natural communicators in the room, such a wonderful experience, especially as the small children questioned the projects in ways the science students hadn't anticipated, in some cases a total rethink - beautiful. Went to CCA the show was of work from the 80s, it did feel a little like it, popped into the art station in Saxmudham - really interesting show of paintings, Scenes From A Place Called World, by Rebecca Riess.