Silk industry posters - detail of first page of woven papers in artist book
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.
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Flags of paper bags hanging in the windows of la filiature.
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.
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Two strikes lead up to the peel of church bells, Lasalle
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.
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Handmade kozo paper with holes marked and paper chatterboxes
When things are flowing, you feel like you are dancing. Ideas flow from one thought to the next. Suddenly you are brim full, your body performing a dance of hands…
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The warped grid of the concertina artist book installed on the floor in the afternoon light.
Today I thought about failure and about the process you go through as you creatively work through your ideas.
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Words on the window. I only just noticed I spelt la fontaine wrong. Quel dommage!
When I was in primary school, my grade four teacher called me windbag because I talked so much.
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Where to begin? The floor of la filature.
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
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View from the living room window
Its Monday morning and the weekly market has set up radiating out from the centre of town near the church, filling the streets
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One of the circular graines de vers à soie boxes. You can see the pin hole marks up close.
The first part of any new project is reconnaissance ~ that's a French word meaning preliminary surveying or research from the verb reconnaître,
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Une petitie chocolaterie in Bretagne, 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.
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