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Three weeks out from the Handshake Collaborative exhibition and I flick Henriette a quick email and ask, “Are we collaborating?” in that ‘are we collaborating, yes I think we are’ kind of way. Our language differences make the familiar unfamiliar and she does not pick up on my flippancy, instead wondering if I am asking…
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I have had a captivation with technical drawing and graph paper for a number of years, as in a younger life I drew graphs for market analysis. Over the time I have been involved with Handshake, technical drawings through engineering has momentarily, at different points in time, come to the surface. My time spent collaborating…
Concurrent to sparks flying in my studio so was my frustration with the international postal system. Recently I posted a template to Helen as our objects require some areas of precision in order to physically work. Unfortunately, but not detrimentally, the template became lost in mail space for about a month, throwing up a spanner…
Liesbeth’s granny’s clock (“I’m fine with the fact that it has stopped working”) Well, I don’t know about great things. But: Plan – check! And Not quite enough time – …check… Also..Not quite enough money… Ticking all the boxes. Trifecta. Yay.
‘Other photographers are interested in looking at something but they never discuss the nature of what they are looking at. If I see a women crying I want to know why is she crying, what’s the nature of her grief. I am constantly on the frontier, that cusp between looking and feeling.’ Duane Michals makes…
Unseen shows are top of mind for me as Liesbeth and I confer on how our Objectspace work will look. In Current obsessions 2 I write about exhibitions that I haven’t seen but, through description by others, are fixed in my memory as if I experienced them first-hand. Here’s a gem that Liesbeth and I both recently…
Mutation event No.2 is still pending. In the meantime, survival instincts run strong…
With Harrell and my collaboration focusing on people’s objects and their stories, I’ve had a renewed interest in reading about the power of language and the act of storytelling. This brought me to this lovely quote from Elizabeth Alexander. “word is one of the ways we have to reach across to each other”
I am starting to think about display methods if these slugs continue on their orbit to Platina. They seem naturally inclined to pile up together, but if they pile up together, what would happen to the strings. Originally (back in March) I thought about having them scattered around on a wall with the strings hanging…
There’s something really compelling about seeing the words we have written move from screen to paper. The analogue version of what has been a very digital exchange. When the idea of making a book from our correspondence first came about, I found myself thinking about what this transition implies. What is it that the physicality…
Images and extracts from ‘Crackle & Splat,’ essays on contemporary Australian artists, as seen here. ‘As sociologists attest, we are individuated in the production and consumption of infinite differences………… Identity is the accretion of this detail, the array of choices, the intricate web and careful arrangement of one’s stuff, the stories we tell, the things…
‘I would not go as far as to say each work is wholly reliant on the other, but each is related to the other and in a way, would not exist without the other.’ Elisha Buttler Curator at FORM, Western Austrailia I have mentioned awkward beauty, a collaboration of Helen Britton, Justine McKnight and Michelle…
Interesting essay from rocksstonesdust.com Rocks, Stones, and Grandfathers by David Garneau My body rests in a boulder. Depending on your worldview, the rock was split by frost or by legend. For geologists, it is a “glacial erratic,” one of thousands of quartzite blocks cleaved from the Rocky Mountains,1 carried by centuries of ice…
Paul Thek’s ‘Teaching Notes’ A list with both personal/philosophical questions and assignments given to Thek’s students as part of his 4-D Sculpture class, Cooper Union School of Arts, New York, 1978-1981. Name Age Birthdate Place of birth Position in family Nationality Religion Education Hobbies Career plans Parents’ education Parents’ birthplace Parents’ religion Where do you…
Stories allow us to see things through other peoples eyes, feel their experiences and reflect back on our own experiences and lives. Duane Michals (B.1932) is one of the 20th centuries most influential photographers. Described as a Storyteller Michals challenged photography traditions and built a reputation for ‘pioneering new ways of considering and creating photographs’…
When Helen and I started throwing about ideas for our collaboration the first and most obvious starting point for us, seeing as it is a process we both use, were components. As we progressed the components idea became clouded by other concerns, and as all artwork should in its making, the idea shifted into something…
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