after handing everything in, and 'graduating' / getting our results, the only thing that I properly would have to work on (not including the chaos of personal life, visas and moving and family etc) is the prunella clough legacy commission.
I think, from now on, at least for now, I'm going to do a round-up every few weeks of things I've seen and felt inspired by - just like every blog post on this blog, but perhaps more as a casual, 'note-taking' type post for myself, so I don't keep pushing it back cos I feel like I need proper research for each post. it's kinda bad, but I often keep pushing back posting posts and then I forget what I was going to post, only left with titles, blank pages, and many many empty days I feel the need to fill up. so here I'll also note down anything of note that has happened. this might teeter into an almost diary type thing, but I guess that's kind of what a 'thinking out loud' blog is. in my results feedback, it said perhaps it would be beneficial for me to continue this. and I definitely agree. I'd have no idea what I am thinking otherwise. so here I go, I'm trying this new format.
7/3 year group meeting: uploading onto the showcase + prunella clough commission introduce
- also I bought the book that zoë put as the reading material for the 'boxed' workshop, funny weather by olivia laing, really enjoying it so far... kind of comforting seeing these artist's life and how their life panned out in times that were not the most comfortable..
- started watching this anime recommended to me, so far the premise and style is crazy, its quite funny and gory at the same time (there's a scene where everyone he killed had their heads bashed into the wall, blood everywhere..! but the protagonist, the reptile headed man is seemingly carefree, just trying to get rid of his curse) there are some really interesting character designs like this mask this character has to put on, shape of a heart.. I also liked the grimy strange setting everything is set in..
- elise finished her portrait drawing of me and it is so beautifully done, I'm so happy and thankful, definitely using it for my graduate showcase!
7/4 these days I was working on a digital drawing for a friend's birthday, also read some of the funny weather book, some pages I liked on this day:
7/5 checking upload to showcase bit by bit and started another audible trial and downloaded this (quite well-known?) book 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by this author Reni Eddo-Lodge who I was listening to the podcast of (I enjoyed it a lot, the podcast is called 'About Race')
7/7 I had this netflix show recommended to me (in my emails, of all places, I clicked on this email which I never usually do, but I'm so glad I did cause this show is so inspiring and enjoyable) the big flower fight, which olive and I are enjoying immensely. we love all their amazing, essentially plant sculptures, you learn about all these plants and they push them in every challenge so much, I've never seen a show where the challenge of each level is so significant. anyway, it was intriguing too because obviously this is in the area of investigation in my studio work as well, manipulating nature... especially when they make animal structures, out of plants, by human hands...
7/8 received results and feedback
+ finished big flower fight (and saw some really inspiring work in the finale)
7/10 after skyping and looking through flats for a few hrs the day before, a whole day of house hunting, which meant I collected loads of interesting pictures and videos of flats I will never live in (we actually decided on a flat on this day... not pictured)
some of these made me feel sad, like I don't want to live here at all... but that fox I met in daylight when I got back felt like a sign... I always feel a warm peculiar feeling when I see them on the street..
7/12 read the Basquiat chapter of funny weather... 'boom for real' .. reminded me again of the basquiat show at the barbican, which left a big impression on me a few years ago... this page has some interesting points to take from... anyway, these past few days was full of transactions to MA and housing etc...
7/13 saw that zoë made the booklets of our studio spaces, really strange feeling looking back on these spaces in this form...
also, was clearing out my laptop when I started to think about that storage that seemed to be 'dead space'... space that you probably need but can never identify.. again it's curious to think about what data looks like and if it can ever look like anything .. its abstract after all, right?
