Tuesday 11 December 2012

Installation

Not a page and not sure they should go here but it felt like we needed to see the thing and a phone picture of the installation suited this place

53 Lazy and expensive


My train Ticket to Bristol and back - problem is it cost 80 quid and I need the Ticket to claim it back but now it's in the press so I'm stuffed - that'll teach me!

52 Writing on a train

I liked writing this it's good not to be able to change things.  A big chunk of it was about not feeling elegant, seems a bit ridiculous now but hey perhaps we should all have a few moments when we can consider an aspect of our lives elegant.

51 Lost Honey

The original sheet with Honey on got lost - it just stayed the same and was sticky.  It's not lost just somewhere - when I find it I will put it on display.  I liked the Honey one.

50 Contour doodle

I prefer this doodle I tried to take a sharp pencil and make it blunt in a single line.  I was pleased I didn't do many sheets like this as it was going through the motions but it did make me think it would have been nice to of developed and refined this idea and done more then I thought perhaps this piece isn't about that.  It's one of my sheets I would be happy to see on display - don't ask me why.

49 Conference doodle

I took four of my last sheets to a conference in Bristol with me.  This was my first attempt it was a cross between a doodle and an observational drawing of a Christmas tree and some croissants.  I'm pleased I didn't do four of these I didn't enjoy doing it and I don't like it. I was distracted by the fact I had to think about projecting snowflakes onto the side of the Hepworth in Wakefield which I included in my drawing - the world meets my brain - it's not clever or pretty.

48 Doodle

I don't remember where this doodle came from but I slipped it in for a missing page then forgot what missing page I'd slipped it in for

47 Rumania again

This is a newspaper from Rumania the small black text in the centre at the bottom is about our performance at the civic Hall in Codlia.  I think that everybody was very proud to be in the paper.  I opperated a small mouse and a yacht.  Crazy times.

46 Robert Page

Robert built the press for us he made a fantastic job.  He completed the penine way in his 50th year and has written a poem about the loss of a close friend.  The red bit on the cairn is his water flask he said he liked to have something of himself in all his photos of the landscape.

45 Anthony's Page

I like this page I think Anthony got the idea and enjoyed taking part - well I hope he did - I built a daft raft for his daft craft raft race so perhaps it was more an exchange.  I will ask him at the opening

44 Heather and Erics Page

This is Eric with his stone collection - Ruskin would be proud

43 Alices page

I put Alices picture in of me and my dog Sunny fishing the sky for things we like partly as she couldn't do anything on the page I gave her she said something like . It's too big and white.  Interesting as perhaps the big white empty sheet and the flowe press explanation wasn't a fair offer to some people - especially Alice who has her own strong ideas about what art should be.

42 Kate Pahl Page

Kate seemed really worried I wouldn't put her contribution in the press which makes me a bit worried that she expects to see it on display.  I said it looked a bit like a Ransom Notes with the cut out words but I'm not sure it went down well.  It was in her office for ages and she kept adding to it.  I like the fact it's so fragmented.

Page 41- reclaimed

I do quite like the fact Kate found this and blogged it in secret.  I carried it with me to Rumania to a course about Shadow puppetry.  I was thinking I would write thoughts on it for the week but I was to busy and it felt like a funny thing to do.  I did take this picture on my phone over a wall and I'm strangely proud of it.
I ripped the corner off it to wrap 500 Euros in on a visit to a castle but when we got there it was very quite and I felt a bit stupid.  It's the only sheet the surface of which I broke - I'm glad as it would have drawn me into process and I think memory may layer itself onto the world so I'm not sure I was keen to break things down.  I still carry the missing piece in the inside pocket of my jacket - I do this as I am chaotic not as an art act.

Into The freezer


It's not really a sheet but it was a turning point in my ability to complete a page a day.  I think there is a difference between writing on a surface or drawing and finding something in the world.  Both perhaps are types of inscription but the second does not sit easily with me.  So after this point I get a bit hap-hazard Not something I'm either proud or ashamed of possibly sums up my hap-hazard relationship with the chaos both beyond and within the sliver of bone and thinning hair which separate the two.  It references Christo and nestled with the Ben and Jerry's for a month

Thursday 6 December 2012

day 49

That's it, I'm out of paper and we install tomorrow. Finally the drawing is finished and i have to say its not a great photo - but hey none of them have been. Inevitability.

Days 40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48 - kate

8 drawings some more successful that other but none discarded or remade. 2 days in freezing conditions of drawing at the farm. Each drawing is of a different part and join with the 2 other black and white drawings in an earlier post to create a suite of work. I suppose they are of trees  - for all sort of reasons..... It made me laugh to myself that i was like Hockney drawing trees in the landscape [albeit without the handy assistants] and that it seemed so anachronistic.  A English landscape artist - I'm not sure to be happy or sad.

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Day 39 - Kate 27/10/12

I wanted to add this badge, so that when the press is opened at this page, it encourages the audience to reflect on things beyond the exhibition and beyond the represented landscapes surrounding them. It also reinforces our intention for the project as a whole.

Friday 30 November 2012

Steve's page 40 - by Kate

I found this sheet discarded on the corner of Steve's dinning room table, i opened it to see if there was something on it but no - just folds and a corner missing - used for others purposes. It was if a Sol le Witt drawing had appeared by magic. But no, it was life that had happened....? I decided that this funny found sheet should go in as an example of shared collaborative working and co-authored pieces!!!!! and in reference to our conversation about the press on the kate and steve blog.

Friday 23 November 2012

Day 38 - 26/10/12

Soaked - here in Lincolnshire its the wettest year for over 100 years, very little drilling has been done, no landworking is possible and every farmer is despondent. I suspect we are not the only ones, it seems like everyones awash. The calendar and weather is against us. New rotations are being drawn up, Spring Barley for spring sowing as an alternative is being traded like pearls and everyones wishing for a really cold winter of hard continual frosts so we can get on the land. Drilling methods and drills are under discussion with little avail as still it rains. The melting of the ice sheets are being held responsible and still it seems we make no changes to our way of being.
So Ive put my sheet in soak today and will leave it there until i have to take it out for the show or the weather improves. Here is a photo of it in the sink. I have also turned the heating down.

Tuesday 20 November 2012

day 37 - 25th oct


sorry been distracted from blogging so here i start to post to get me up to date. the photo is shocking, but what it says is -

"you understand the soil, its structure - the land when you plough."

Edward Griffin - British and European Reverse Plough Champion.

Friday 2 November 2012

day 36 - 24 Oct. Kate

 I emptied my fire today of ash - here is some in the bucket i use alongside my garden trowel, that was my Grannys. I liked for this project that the ash comes from the wood from trees at the farm and this bucket full gets tipped on my garden - potash and all that.
A never ending cycle of chop down and build up.

day 34 and 35 - 22nd and 23rd Oct.


I had some friends to visit and their two sons/artists drew a landscape each. Above is camping in Wales by Oscar aged 5 and below is out the window of my studio by Joe aged 7.


39-30th Marcus

This is from a workshop in the park with Marcus - we are intending toproject an image of it onto the house - it is going to become part of the landscape.

38 -29th-drawing class

This is my picture from the drawing class - I am finding this really hard - again I think I am more interested in doing a drawing than looking but I did try my best and didn't feel like I wanted to subvert anything which is my normal transgressive position.  Ruskin would have admired the effort not the result.

37- 28th Pauls Picture

This is Paul's Page - it's the view from his bedroom window.

36-27th,. Grass

Just picked up some wet grass - mostly for the smell of dampness and the end of summer.

35 -26th-bookbinding

Today was the last day of "Language as Talisman" project - I had got heather the bookbinder to make these lovely CD cases- nobody really saw how nice they are - the world contains so many things which do not touch human hands these are all hand made. - thanks heather

34 25th- David Nash

We came back this day so I had to scrabble around for something when I got in after a long drive.  I found the David Nash book and remembered the story of David Nash going to find his wife to show him is new sculpture and saying

"Bloody hell love I've just done another one - look at that." and her nodding sympathetically - a page a day is starting to feel a bit like that

33 24th. A lost Page

I don't know what happened to todays page I gave it to Alice to do and haven't had it back yet

32 -23rd - watercolor

Three hour sat Looking - clearly I was more interested in painting a water color than a landscape.  It did make me look more and feel more - I don't think it's bad for a first attempt since 1978.

31 -22nd Chisel Beach

I walked down the beach and picked up all sorts of stuff and laid it out.  It looked nice but to much like a Tony Cragg or beach art so I just picked out the most aesthetic object - it's a piece of laminated wood the read looks a bit like a Miro painting - when we open the press I'm going to ask Kate to paint it for me for Christmas - I'm not going to try to as I will be disappointed.

30 -21st Sherbourne Abbey

Went in here today - always have a spiritual epiphany in these places they are big enough inside to feel more like landscapes - it is so easy to understand the power of god when you look at that amazing vaulted ceiling. 

29-20th

Got these in an art shop - intending to do a water colour of the landscape. Nervous about it.

28-18th

Picked Holly up from Sherbourne Station I had missed her - this is the book she made for me before she left for university. 


"Rain falls on the tracks
There are no reservations
on the train of life"

A Haiku I wrote for her when she left.

My Landscape became richer and Louder when she arrived.

27-18th journey to Dorset

I sat on it for the 5 hours to Dorset. it was a nice journey and good to get away everything felt damp and the volvo's heated seat was good.

26- 17th Alice drawing

Alice did this picture for me for my Birthday. I have put it as my screen saver on the computer.  The 17th was a computer day and it was nice to have something real not virtual to put in.  The picture is of me and Sunny fishing for things we like in the sea of life- we are fishing in the sky and underwater which reminds me of the book I was reading which is "Existentialism made easy." I got it because I wasn't sure if they new the title was ironic - on reading bits of it on the toilet I'm still not sure.

25 catch up 13th

This was from the 13th I'm not sure what day or number it is but was from the "Harry Major" exhibition we helped to stage at SOAR works

Sunday 21 October 2012

Fri/Sat/Sun -19/20/21. Day 31/32/33

I taught a life drawing class on sat, yesterday, and it made me really wanted to draw and not teach, they were a really nice group and some beautiful drawings came out, i was pleased. So today i decided to go and draw, i felt inspired to try and use colour and challenge myself [colour is problematic for me [i find it really hard and for landscape - its all too green] although I'm not quite sure this drawing is finished yet. I also turned to black pastel and am really pleased with the 2nd and 3rd drawings. I decided that after today and reflection on Harry's show last weekend i am going to draw again, regularly, and i really like the format of these squares, so for the mean time they will be this size. Although i also think some really large drawings would be good too. I am not going to think about this decision too much and just enjoy the engagement with space, place, materials and process, if i think too much it doesn't make sense. Anyway, perhaps a bit of a cheat but here are 3 days in one