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

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.

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.