microbooksarego

of average sunlight opens tonight - the micro show (in a good way) looks great http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/single-post/2017/02/17/Also-up-next-millimetre02-of-average-sunlight-BookMare-II making work within such tight restrictions was liberating.

moonlight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975722/ an extraordinarily beautifully painful film full of loss and possibilities - a must see. assassin creed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094766/ lots of jumping, leaping, dust and roof tops I think the best bits are back here rather than there.... a busy weekend coming up with a trip to Glasgow which includes a mass of galleries, food and the Take Me Somewhere festival of contemporary performance which takes place across Glasgow. 

peoplearewatching

The editioned work on the bookwork for the show of average sunlight for millimetre02 space is complete, I just need to send it off. The rules of the brief were restrictive in terms of size but the structure allows the piece to expand beyond the A6 size.  Using sunshine yellow and parts of the circle, the folding allows for multiple ways of viewing the work, all of them correct.

I had a really excellent, lively session with year 1 MA Fine Art OCA students this week - exploring the relationship between research and making - we were looking at ways of developing a holistic practice with research embedded at its core.

http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/initial-presentation-year-1-2017 I gave the presentation on Monday and it already has 165 views and there are only 12 in the cohort. 

arrivingatanidea

ok everybody has to see Arrival - so many questions - where do memories come from? who makes them? what IS language? it's a truly beautifully heartbreaking mind twisting multiple discussion point film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/ go now - it will make you a better person. Star Wars - Rogue One http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/?ref_=nv_sr_2  Alan Tudyk as K-2SO steals the show - all the best lines and witty commentary on the overall proceedings - once you've got past the extraordinary special effects, the detailed set dressing and death star imagery the film felt like a colouring in exercise - making the links between two known places in the story, although along the way there are some creative insights into the world that is to be defined by the force. Nocturnal Animals http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4550098/ is so stylish that what feels like the central anti-women feeling underpinning the film almost glosses over you. It did instigate a house conversation where I tried to think of a film where the woman, even if treated badly doesn't turn into the person doing the bad thing! The woman in a broken relationship even if the one done-bad-by  always appears not to get the sympathy of the audience as they either turn into a psychopath or the one somehow deserving it by not conforming to the roles society has defined for them, and women in general. You will get to Thelma and Louise but it doesn't end well for anyone). Kurt Russell is in full on acting mode but Terence Stamp's acerbic witty remarks steal the show in the caper that is The Art of the Steal http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172985/business and then..... there is the great series from Netflix - travellers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844/ - if you like your sci-fi part time-travel and smart this is for you.  Meanwhile I've been working on the bookwork for the show of average sunlight for millimetre02 space, Kingsgate Workshops.