I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Let it sit in the back of my mind. Sometimes I find it’s better to let things percolate. I’m thinking about how and what I show, part of me is tempted to make new work…but I also know the dangers with that. It’s hard I always want to be progressing and for that to happen I want to make new work, use the lessons learnt from what I have just made. But its also time consuming, and perhaps more importantly I need to pull on what has happened over the past two years on the course.
A key lesson learnt is the value of me liberating my making, stopping myself from overthinking and working which ultimately leads to me editing all ideas and not making so much. In working quick and dirty I’ve found that my ideas are able to make more connections and resonances, the practice based research goes deeper.
So in many senses it seems appropriate to show all the experiments rather than a polished final artwork. Although this is hard too as I imagine the weight of expectations of others. But then I think making the installation similar to what the drawing is in keeping with my research paper too. A nod to Ursual von Rydingsvard curation.
Hung from hopefully a unistrut using cables suspending the work feels more sympathetic that securing to a wall, but at a push that could work to, it feels kinda big maybe 3.5m - 4m square, but that’s kinda greedy.
But more than that an exploration of the liminal, I do wonder weather objects are allowed, making something physical seems almost contradictory. But I return to the phrases ‘Ritualised objects of the liminal’ and ‘Poetic discovery of the hidden’.
I do have a new piece that might also translate better, in interpreting the Liminal and my investigations, but I need to make it and it’s location bound so I don’t really know how it would show in the gallery context…and I need to make it yet. It could suck.
I want to meditate more on the past two years and reread my paper, so older blog posts, there’s so much that I have already forgotten.