Today we had the second meeting with some of the members from the other groups as well. The five of us exchanged ideas and had a little update on what we are all doing, discussed how collaboration is going, which, for some of us, we drifted apart in ideas and found it hard to meet up... but Kathy was very understanding and was saying how it could be better to split into smaller groups or working on solo work. I do still want to do collaborative things though, so at the end I joined two of them to discuss their ideas since I quite liked what they were doing. They were both doing MA (at CSM and Chelsea) (which is where I am thinking of applying too) anyway, Huiping also brought in a brilliant digital print that had a lot to do with what I’m looking at right now... she printed a screenshot of her wallpaper, which was a picture of scenic mountains, and that to me speaks a lot to the artificial landscape ideas I’m thinking about... she said it’s not that expensive and she did it in CSM.. I wonder if Wimbledon workshops have that too, I must ask... Claudia also showed her old work which was a blank canvas with the wall text, and the wall text was actually the work.. I liked it a lot, there’s so much to be said in a blank space... it kind of corresponds to the painting Idea I had a few weeks before, about having a blank spaced work and titling it An Apology Letter of Things I Didn’t Do.../ at the end the three of us, Claudia, Huiping, and I sort of agreed on a start - we liked the stream of consciousness idea, and how we could respond to each other’s, completely random words, via our group text. We’d probably wanna present or digitally? it’s all very unclear but we do have a group meeting next Friday as well. throughout this meeting I also showed my quick drawing of the MEMORIES MAKE ME text and Karen was saying how the order of words is a really interesting concept as well- how it can change meanings so easily. And different languages, the different ways in which they are read. Anyway, I’m really glad I went to this meeting because I feel slightly lifted off of the slump I was feeling over the weekend - I had a lot of mini ideas but none that are manifesting... now I feel there’s just a little bit more of motivation. The actual exhibiting of work is beginning of December, which isn’t much time at all, and I kinda also wanna do a solo piece alongside it... I’ll have to make it work.
