February 8th 2006

February 8th 2006

Weblogs!!!! Like I haven’t got enough to do already.


Well, I have had time to reflect on this whist coming home on the train.

Yes, okay, it is a really good idea.
It is proactive, and I like that.
It is making me use technology (when I’d really rather not).
I could get my own students to do this! Now there’s an idea!


Reflection on Self-initiated Project ‘brainstorming session’.

Initial ideas for exploration.

Continue with Draw, Undraw, Re-draw; looking at erasure and destruction within a psychological context.

Examine the idea of an event, happening or performance linked to erasure. Think about public/audience participation. This process could be videoed. The work created would then be erased or destroyed in some way (?) and then re-made using the fragments or remnants.

Consider a collaboration with a poet or use existing poetry for inspiration. For example, Eliot’s Wasteland or Tony Harrison’s Gaze of the Gorgon.

Still interested in collecting the testimonies, stories and accounts of others as inspiration. I am aware that I need to do this within a specific context. This will be my core issue and is yet to be defined. I need to research, looking for cultural issues and dissonant themes appropriate to my working methods i.e erasure and destruction.

Combinations of any of the above?

When preparing my self-initiated proposal I must remember to include the following key points;

Using words as creative triggers.

Words of others relevant to core issue.

When combining words and images create a deliberate mis-match rendering interpretation as intentionally ambiguous or multi-layered.

Use erasure and/or destruction as a drawing tool to consciously create a psychologically disturbing context appropriate to the core issue.

Watch this space…… Core issue coming next.