saintsrus

I’ve been working on an idea that came from a conversation with the Revd Clive Mobbs the wonderful cleric attached to Sizewell C. We spoke about Patron Saints; he mentioned Saint Barbra the patron saint of explosions, who knew. It connects with an idea linked to the needs of the people who build/dig tunnels, that their work would be blessed.  On reflection I’ve been thinking that it also links with the theme of construction workers as heroes. The idea was to create a team of saints, one for each worker/job, this has proved challenging as there does not seem to be a list – anyway…...a month later and I have created a whole periodic table of saints with what I think are SZC related jobs. 

itistrueifyouseeit

Continuing to explore ai - creating images for a presentation about materiasl text promps around cavemen operating textile equipment look disturbingly like jehovah's witness literature. Meanwhile a day in London to obsentricaly have a sauna but dropped into the Barbican to see an extraordinary amount of plywood in Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's exhibition and the Whitechapel to see one of my all time important artists Lygia Clark. Her approach to art making has informed my own approach to running workshops. I connected my way of thinking about bookmaking to her relationship to audience. You get to hold and operate replicas of her Bichos series, just don't sit on the plyth while you do it or you will be told off - great way to encourage audience's especially when you have paid £15:00 to get in. The extraordinary Archive of Dissent by Peter Kennard is free and alone worth the visit. Onto screens - finally got to see the beautiful Perfect Day - so thoughtful.

winningai

The Synthetic Anatomy Module at Kings has won an Education innovation Award from the Anatomical Society for an Integrated Innovative Anatomy Teaching Module. We are good – congratulations to Dr Mandeep Gill Sagoo (Team Lead, King's College London), Professor Richard Wingate, Professor Kawal Rhode and Dr Leigh Wilson. I’m deep into Chat GPT and its wondrous possibilities. Working with it to create work for Moon to Moon, in Lowestoft for the firstlight festival. Asked to develop a response to a poem written by George Szirtes It was an interesting exercise to submit the text into ChatGPT - I was fascinated that it deconstructed the poetry, taking out the poetic and making it fairly numbing. Meanwhile in my teaching capacity its assessment assessment assessment time – judging people is a thing. Onto screens - Paint – the discussion after when trying to work out why this doesn’t work is probably more interesting than the film itself – misjudged. John Wick 4 – 1000 more ways to creatively kill people. And then there was Succession – the gloriously devastating ending for all.