Conspiratorial Spoon

Counterfeit Poster Design

My three, well four years in art school has lead me to making a counterfeit poster for the degree show, since my exhibit is out of the way. My design skills are now proving useful. I even found the very arrow from the internet.

The Degree Show

The degree show is ready and waiting.

Film making

Well well well my film is exporting as I type this little entry. Layers of sounds and song, a journey into the water. I spaced out showings of the film so the objects have some visual peace to rest and be still. Also because I quite like the element of surprise. I've always liked hiding things and this time I've included an extra bit of the video, perhaps a reveal, just once for some to see and others to miss. I seem to be a fan of secrets and puzzles within artwork, which links to curiosity, I think there is something intimate about hiding something for the viewer. I also like the idea of people seeing different versions of the work and I show the films at irregular intervals to add a sense of unexpected. To develop this Id like to play more with making more variants within the film editing. 

Old Umbrella

This old umbrella must be good for something.

I wonder what?

What if I hang it upside down?

Can I fill it with something?

Rice?

And so it began a rice spell to dispel bad luck

 (the kind you get from opening an umbrella inside, which I did.)

Den Sized Warrior

Feeling forlorn, unsure and dejected. I didn't know what to do. Times like this call for a den.

The den no longer lives in my studio, there are only remnants of fabric. So I recreated a momentary man size den just for me.

Feeling much better now, I am rejuvenated.

Clouds

I quite like the low fi illusion of this cloud leviating in space. Im wondering whether for the degree show I could levitate a few clouds in the space to create a slightly surreal effect of outdoors being indoors. Creating an inbetween feeling.

The Electrical Fairy

I came back from holidays to find my studio space a bit disheveled and it appears someone has been busy testing everything electric. They've tested the studio kettle, printer (that doesn't print) and even my hair drier left over from a workshop. I know the electrical pass testing fairy has been since they've left some very official PASS stickers on them.

Rock sits in group exhibition

For a bring your own art exhibition, I added my white magical rock to the cocophony of art pieces. 26/03

Lady Bicolage

Hundini Thumb

Playing Nina Katchadourian

For a dress as an artist themed party I went as Nina Katchadourian. 

Wishes in the city

This tree is covered in ribbons, it reminds me of the wishing tree at Sancreed in Cornwall. This wishing tree is wegded  between two roads, a noisey place to rest and today the wind blows strong. But perhaps the unlikely setting is quite beautiful, in the city where the cars and pace can be hastey and loud but the simplicity of the ribbons on the tree suggest intention and hope, also perhaps an extended moment of peaceful prayer. Playful prayer? 

Bristol Wanderings

I didnt go there with a plan, though I actually did. But it didnt go not to plan or to plan, it was something else. Tom said "I have a note on my wall that says 'there's no such thing as wasting time, just spending it in a way you didn't intend to.'" I didnt make anything that day, instead I took the opportunity to learn some piano and saxaphone for free, chatted to a pair of people about cycling to bath and on this road I gave up my unplanned non plan and just wandered along singing Moon River from  Breakfast at Tiffanys. Eventually realising I was whimsically wandering into an notoriously dogdy area which I promptly wandered out of, after playing throw and catch with a group of strangers.

Object Colaborators

This week I ran a performance workshop called Object Collaborators. It was based around exploring different objects and creating stories about them. 

For the workshop I told everyone to bring two objects, one with a story and I led exercises using these objects and improvisation. We played warm up games using movement and creating stories with the idea of the yes and principle in Comedy Improvisation. I learnt about the yes and principle when I was part of the Comedy Improv troop Monkey Butler and it still influences my way of working today. It basically means if someone says something it is added to and not negated and through not knowing the end result but adding information, the story is built up. No worries. 

We explored creating stories using this idea, guessed the possible stories of the objects using their properties and played with embodying the objects whilst interacting with each other. The workshop led to making a collaborative film, everyone got involved and worked together well and we used the objects we had to thread together a story building it up bit by bit. The story became about a disgruntled tape measure that went through a transformative journey.

Walk out the door

One rainy day I was trying, note: trying and failing, to write my dissertation and researching Keri Smith. She said that her work is about getting people off the screens and into the outdoors, being true to her word I turned off the computer and took her book How to be an Explorer of the World on a walk. Practice as Research one may say.

My excursion was rich, sitting in the rain and wind making marks on the paper taking in and describe through my senses.

THIS IS A SIGN

On a visit to Truro Health Park I noticed these signs (hard not to notice). there's something interesting about the obvious and shameless labelling. There were also signs saying NOW WASH YOUR HANDS.

Home Improvements

Home made shelf: holds two hair ties

Onions

I wonder how long I can sculpt this onion before I start crying?

Printmaking

I joined in with a cillaborative printmaking project on Berlin. For the first time I tried dry point etching and really enjoyed it. The print is affected by the marks you carve in but also how you apply the ink on top which can create different effects. I chose to draw the listening tower from the outskirts of Berlin because of its shape but mainly because I think its an amazing place.

Mid draft dissertation crisis

Den making: day one

Its been years since I made a den and I've never made one quite like this. So as a tester I levitated one sheet, into a ghostly roof then the next one got draped over, soon momentum picked up.

Tiny chef found in shoe

My current understanding of Brain Science and logic

Bag of Messy Logic, Brain diagram. 2012. 

How many things?

This is how I feel.

Ive taken on more than I can logically handle.

But perhaps I'll surprise myself.

Please Touch The Cacti