Assessment all done and handed in. There's that lightness of foot that follows... and so i spent the rest of the day sleeping, because the days before hand in are always exhausting. Bought a new sketchbook so i think i'll have a days rest and than get creative again.

Open Studios

Automatism

"Pure psychic automatism-the dictation of thought in the absence of all control, exercised by reason and outside all moral or aesthetic concerns" Andre Breton, First Surrealist Manifesto, 1924

aim of automatism=to access material from unconscious mind.

I decided to try automatism, automatic drawing i found difficult but when i applied the notion to music it came out with some interesting results.

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Brother & Bones

A friend linked me this last night, and i absolutley love it.

Picasso

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world though we can’t explain them; people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.” Picasso

In every project i approach i seem to take a lot of influence from Picasso. My work isn't necessarily similar in appearance but i find he's concepts/ mixture of style/ imagery and words inspiring. What a beautiful man he was.

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But baby it's cold outside...

I do quite enjoy the snow, and i was secretly hoping to get stranded in London on Sunday so i could speand some extra time with my best friends, but the cold is something i'd rather avoid. I've got into an awful habit of watching the day pass from behind a window...not that my house is any warmer.
I have done a major clear up today...my room has been a state pretty much since i moved. And then i did some baking...cause that always warms me up, and i like to think my housemates appreciate it too.


Follow the link for my banana loaf recipe

Is this my practice?

I like storytelling

I like surreality

the state of unconciousness withing reality

the being aware of both

forming the superreal

the surreal

"Everything you imagine is real"

I want to make my imaginings a physicality

I want to be able to see it

to touch it

to experience it.

Minotaur

"There was no reason for alarm, she knew as he held her in his arms"




Asterion 1 (biro, watercolour and collage)
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