In & Around
M.A. Margaret Street, 2000
(First Part)
Mainly about the M.A. Show
Drinks & a Crow
A small comment on Empirical behaviour ~ all the conquests & the English attitude toward them.
Also on the side of the box a different slant from an American perspective. A poem by e.e. cummins
I etched the writing out on the glass, tracing the script I had underneath. I then hollowed out an oval on a solid wood top, cut the glass to fit & etched the writing out on the glass, tracing the script I had underneath.
ygUDuh
ydoan
yunnuhstan
ydoan o
yunnuhstand dem
yguduh ged
yunnuhstan dem doidee
yguduh ged riduh
ydoan o nudn
LISN bud LISN
dem
gud
am
lidl yelluh bas
tuds weer goin
duhSIVILEYEzum
The Anticlockwise, but circular bus route in Birmingham
The Anticlockwise, but circular bus route in Birmingham
2-3-20.
A space(s) tables triptitch.
The Cock upstairs
Bird & Instructions Tables
Hero Slides
Sunday, 23 September 2018
The struggle for trying to (re)present what my work was supposed to be about.
I was supposed to convey the substance of my practice and what was I supposed to say? So I made up a list of good ideas and illustrated them for presentation - they thought I was leading them on a wild goose chase - well well well !
I was working from a book identifying & analyzing the various spaces we incorporate into our daily lives.
I'm afraid I can't remember for the life of me, what it was!
Mobiles I suppose I couldn't think of anything more uncool! I had come across quite a few surviving solo earrings - the other half having been lost. An exhibition of enlarged solitary mobiles. Maybe a show for people with only one ear.
Totally regurgitated from The Observer Colour Magazine Supplement from the 80's and collage work I made with Terry Johnson in Cardiff during that period. I suppose - another space!
Deities behind the scenes. Again- spaces, but maybe spaces beyond spaces. I noticed in places like airports and supermarkets often there were temporary ceilings to cover up the electrics and pipework going on up above. To the point where maybe you could never really be sure of what was happening up there. Maybe there could be little workers above making sure that everything was working.
Mobiles I suppose I couldn't think of anything more uncool! I had come across quite a few surviving solo earrings - the other half having been lost. An exhibition of enlarged solitary mobiles. Maybe a show for people with only one ear.
Strange - reading all of this which was basically a "keep them off my back" public tutorial. And which was, in the end - a large part of what was happening to me, with or without the M.A. And which, often enough - transpired!
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(Going back)
I wouldn't have swapped this M.A. lightly at all.
It was great to be a bit of a rebel again, have another opportunity to be one.
I learnt a lot about myself & my relationship with art and in fact to the art establishment. And to fit into that space without self-damage!