The work we do. I’ve been thinking of that today as I wove strips of photocopied posters advertising the silk industry which dominated the Cévennes up until fifty or so years ago.
All in travel
Viva la Domestics!
Today was a day for tidying up in the studio. Tomorrow I will be joined by a choreographer from Portugal who I hope will bring another way of thinking through movement to this artist space.
Écoute
Today is le quatorze juillet, the 14th July. In Australia we call it Bastille Day (after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution) but in France it is referred to as la fête nationale (national day) and as such is a public holiday.
Fail better
Today I thought about failure and about the process you go through as you creatively work through your ideas.
Warp and Weft
How to actually start a new project from scratch? When I walked into the studio space this morning, I was again struck by the idea of making a space for me
Le Gîte
Its Monday morning and the weekly market has set up radiating out from the centre of town near the church, filling the streets
Hunting and Collecting
The first part of any new project is reconnaissance ~ that's a French word meaning preliminary surveying or research from the verb reconnaître,
Finally, France!
After finally arriving in France via La Rochelle we did a quick trip to Brittany to conclude our tour of neolithic sites in the UK and Brittany, France.
Transmitters
I have always wanted to go to Newgrange. Perhaps more so than Stonehenge. It is the one of the oldest solstice aligned temples in the world…
Stones and Circles
Throughout our UK travels, we have visited many neolithic sites, from the Standing Stones of Stenness, Ring of Brognar and Skara Brae on the Isle of Orkney
What can you do?
What can one sole person do in the larger scheme of things? I wonder...
Walls, Borders (and their crossing)
alls....It seems like everyone these days either has one or wants to build one.
Location, location
Cornwall will forever be Jamaica Inn and Rebecca, The Shell Seekers and more lately, Doc Martin.