Monday 22 February 2021

#042: Wherever the river may take you

Find a river, follow it.  

Sometimes you lose your own way and need a well worn path to follow, through whatever terrain you need to traverse. Making your own path isn't always easy, sometimes you need it laid out until you find your own way again.  Another way to fill up your canvas, another way to find ideas.  When you need to, when you find the right course, sail your own ship once more.


Monday 15 February 2021

#041: The Art of Looking Through Windows

Every time you have time (especially if the window is new to you):

Stop and look through it.  Really look through it and at everything you can see.  Work from top to bottom and side to side, finding things, seeing things, noting things and build up the entire picture.  

Take time and take it all in.

Is there a story to be told, a film scene playing out; or is it a still (or a gif) landscape?

Try looking from different angles; try taking a few steps back or forwards, and look from further away or nearer: how does the view, how does the story, change?  

Try from the other side, if possible, if safe, and look in, instead of out (or vice versa), and repeat the process the other way round.  Don’t try looking into other peoples’ homes or offices, though, please.

If you cannot see through, if it’s only reflecting you, then treat it as a self-portrait

Or, if what you need is blankness, then just stand and stare, take in nothing of the scene and think.  This way lies true infinity.  


Monday 8 February 2021

#040: It is different every day but always the same

A video installation of sixty 24 minute films that blend into one another, shown back to back.  

Each consists of a single shot of a clear tank of water.  Into the water, at irregular intervals, drop different amounts of black ink.  Sometimes there may only be a small amount and it dissipates out to nothing, or very little; sometimes there will be enough to darken the water significantly or even turn the water completely black - but no two films are the same.  

At the end of each 24 minute segment, the water is drained and replaced with clean water before the process repeats.


Monday 1 February 2021

#039: The joy of bubbles

A gallery empty except for the occasional bubble machine blowing out bubbles.  

Either get involved or stand back and watch the pure joy that bubbles bring to the world.


(Best not to think about the Health and Safety and logistical nightmares that this would bring).