I don't like drafts

I don't like writing drafts. I have never liked writing drafts. Until I came to honours I got through everything in life by researching and researching and then writing it all in 3 hours and handing it in without a second glance.

The process of fixing words is just not my forte. I like writing them. I enjoy spewing them onto the page very much but the action of trawling back through? I find this excruciatingly frustrating. I find peeling labels off things more thrilling.

I don't know what it is about me. But I simply like the immediacy of the first act. If it's not right then that's okay. Disregard it. Write something new.

This is a failed system. One I have to ignore because it simply does not work in the world of research.

I am also a hopelessly restless human being. Always have been and always will. I find sitting still a challenge.

So, despite having a similar relationship to editing as most people do to the sound of fingernails on chalkboard - off I go again. Luckily I am built with an internal headmaster who screeches at me and tells me to get back to work.

Other wise I would never edit a thing.

Seizure - a crystal filled house in London

An artwork by Roger Hiorns set in an old apartment in London. Commissioned by Artangel, this artwork interupts an abandoned space, turning it into a site of crystalined beauty. Hiorns poured 75,000 litres of copper sulphate into an old apartment and let the artwork grow. The result drew hundreds of people a day on a pilgrimage across the city to visit this strange crystal wonderland. Hiorns is interested in sculpture that is self driven and grows in its own form. Seizure was inspired by the cathedrals he spent so much time in during his childhood as a choirboy. For him the structure of the crystal mirrors the architecture of the cathedrals.

 crystals

Aerial view of a bathtub

More details about the artwork and the work of arts commissioning body artangel can be found here



http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2008/seizure

thanks.

Good mood

Today I am in a ridiculously good mood. Despite stepping outside my house, walking up the street and being completely drenched by a bus driving past. Seems I am in an untouchable state of strange bliss today.

So I just wanted to share some images with you that inspire me / make me happy.

 an incredible house melting into the ground

 This

 Jill Orr. Live Artist. She makes very visually striking work. Beautiful.

 Romeo Castelluci. I have a thing for burning pianos

 This is one of my favourite images of all time.

 I have a collection of images of houses under/in water. When they were doing the snowy mountains hydro scheme they had to move the town of Jindabyne up the hill so they could make a dam. They left some of the houses there and flooded the area. When the water is low you can still see some old stone steps near the island in the middle of lake Jindabyne. I find the thought of a submerged town eerie and incredibly beautiful.

 hehe

Graffiti for a special someone and everyone simultaneously 

 Mr. Alister

mmmmmmm

 Beautiful composition. Very pleasing

 Alison Mosshart is a babe

Bill Henson. He is incredible. I think subconsciously he is what inspires me to work with so much darkness in shows. Be specific with colour and focus. 

Early morning starts with my cat. This is her mid yawn.

Abandoned buildings. Grandeur slowly turning to dust.  

Miss Tess Mallett. Remember this. 

"Tattoos on your body like a road map of everywhere you'd been" Ani Difranco.

Longplayer - a 1000 year long musical composition

I was tumbling through the interwebs looking for information on Artangel, an arts commissioning body in the UK and found this artwork. It's called Longplayer. A composition that started on 31st December 1999 and will play through until the last moment of 2999. Then it will begin again from the start. What struck me most about this artwork is the hope, for want of a better word, that is imbued within it. To think that the world will still exist in 2999 to keep playing this composition.

For me this conjures visions of a post-apocalyptic world, human life long since gone and across a vast desert you hear this machine tick into the last bar of it's song at the final moment of 2999. There is a moment of eerie silence. And then it resumes. Tracking back and playing music that was heard in 1999 by people that once inhabited the earth.

Strange.

So this artwork is eerie, hopeful and beautiful all at the same time.

Here is the link to it.

http://longplayer.org/what/overview.php

thanks.

Inspiration

I'm currently in the throws of my confirmation write up. A 100 page document of pure joy. It is due on the 29th of April. I do not see as much as a breath until it is in. Then I present on May 12th, the onto developing my Scratch work for La Boite. In the meantime I've been keeping my creative bones sane by looking at this amazing website called 'the fox is black' and I found this amazing artist called Myeongbeom Kim. He is an South Korean / American artist that creates beautiful works.

Check these out:

The fox is black site can be found here: http://thefoxisblack.com

And more info on this amazing artist can be found on his website http://www.myeongbeomkim.com/index.html   He also does amazing things like sculpt chairs into / out of trees and fill school corridors with leaves. All the artworks are visually striking and have this gorgeous friction of man made and natural.