Faces

I've been working on this sculpture this week, it's now in the drying process and the head sunk further down when hollowing as the clay wasn't really dry enough yet for the process. The photo was a freak accident when playing with my camera but it fits pretty nicely. x

Exhibition at School of Ideas

My first exhibition in London was at the School of Ideas, a squat occupied by the movement Occupy. It was vibrant and wonderful, we got to put our work up in the gym. No-one turned up for the first 5 hours but once the music started people were turning up and we had a good atmosphere. The building got demolished 2 weeks after we exhibited in it, illegally, before any planning permission had been granted to the company who bought the land to build flats.

Thus far.

Thus far, she needs a head, the fire ball in her hand to be more firey, sort out the top bit a bit more and a general tidy up. It's based on the idea of balance.

Today

I worked from home... meaning in a tiny room. I really enjoyed it, got quite a bit done, I'm not putting it all on here because some of it is pretty ugly... and bought myself a decent amount of procion mx powder as well which made the day really good. x

Finally.

Sorry it's taken so long, it's only just become more of an idea.
... i don't always work in the dark.
And i am capable of straight photographs.
And i know arms don't really look like that.
ok, enough.

Rounding up

Pipilotti Rist was an amazing exhibition at the art gallery, all I can really show you are the pants on washing lines all around the building. Inside was a giant, beautiful chandelier of them as well as an abundance of interesting and interactive ways of showing video art.

This here is Trigger of Only Fools and Horses, he read us poetry be people such as William Blake in the UBS Bank of Ideas in London with the Occupy movement.

And now here are a few pictures of the development of a few of my pieces. Making slow progress, need to pick my feet up.

And my grubby bed, it has now been replaced by a clean cover and will be washed upon my return to it.

A beautiful year, mainly in Foundation, but a good start to life in the city too. I haven't quite gotten used too it yet but I'm going to be working hard when I get back, have an exhibition to prepare for! That should help me get more into the swing of things again :) xxx

We count.

It doesn't matter, only you do.
Keep buying into this
Easily bought ideal reality
And you'll have no sanctuary
When the world burns
At your feat.

I doodle on my bed.

Just can't help myself. Big paper's expensive!

Leaf sculptures.

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Managed to find out where I could borrow a decent camera from so could take some nice photographs again! Yay!
This is what I came up with in a sculpture workshop where I decided to ignore the free clay and play with leaves instead. x

The beginning

So there are a couple of paintings I've started. The first was about seeing things how others see it, allowing yourself to connect as well as maintaining your own views and keeping yourself. This one was originally going t be about imbalance, but we'll see where it goes. x

Some work so far

SO drained today, really enjoying it though. I am readching a dead end with the joined faces, it's mainly about collective inspiration, joining together, seeing the world through your own eyes but understanding the view others may take and how they feel. It's about connecting, to then bring a new culture, getting away from the selfishness of today, getting away from the "more more more" culture of today. Instead it's about more people, more input, more understanding, Less exploiting, less attachment to our things, more attachment too each other. This is a babble, it;s not fully thought through but you get the general idea. LOve xxxx

Censorship in the UK!

We should know about this!
https://www.occupywallst.org/

Italy with the family on bikes.

I have just been to Italy on a biking tour around the region called Tuscany. Loads of amazing sculptures, their local stone is Alabasta which is like a soft rock, it felt very soft to the touch in the sense of texture and density. They made a scale model of the tower of Pisa out of it, which was beautiful.
Favourite part was having swallows nest inside the restaurant of one of the hotels as well as another nest in the bike shed. They left the window open allowing the parents to get to and from the nest as they pleased to feed their chicks, which they did very often!
Bum hurt, but not too badly, I fell off my bike, got burnt, have a really uneven tan, left an awesome looking rock in the hotel room that I was going to add to my interesting rock collection. Food was delicious and everyone there was so lovely. This is a ramble, just a sort of thought putter downer. Nothing too interesting it was just a really lovely, relaxed, well fed, well exercised and well rested holiday :) xxx