I had my meeting / checkup on studio progress with sarah from the british museum, and I think it went pretty well...she said she loves the work so far and even that I don't need to work much on it, and that she likes the whiteness of the panel and preserving the drawing on the top right. I'm really glad she likes it and it felt good to know that she likes my ideas of 'fragility of life' behind it...we find out if we get accepted o the twenty something. To be honest, it was rather comforting to talk to sarah because I was explaining how my mother's health check didn't go so well which really was what made me jump into these ideas in the first place, (even though this idea is central in my studio practice) and she said she's sorry to hear, and for some reason that was comforting. and it is a strange interaction, isn't it, you don't know what to say back. This made me think further about how we interact around the idea of death and grief and grief for other people and strangers. I think especially the idea of grief for strangers, or a celebrity, someone you never met but love, is so intriguing, and is part of my thinking for the melancholia proposal for the freud museum. Anyway, that is another thing, upon the seemingly never-ending pile of Other things, that is forever collecting in the corner.
