Again I am drawing a blank about what I’ve done in the last month and a half.
Life has messed with me again. Interference at its best.
We have just moved back into a Level 1 Covid restriction in Auckland which means we can virtually go about our every day lives with less concern and frigidity. All we have to do is use the app. It’s a huge relief and fingers crossed we can venture out for a good while. It is spring here. Warming up. Bees everywhere. My kowhai has bloomed and the wisteria is pungent and divine.
I love the light this time of year. This is a bottle I drilled as an experiment.
I went to an opening yesterday afternoon at Fingers for the Annual Group Show, where I have these earrings called ‘Hang’. Such a pleasure to be in a room with others.
http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/group20.htm
I went to see Ockham Residential Lecture Series: Judy Darragh: Value Added at Objectspace 1 October. A great lecture. I’m a huge fan of her work and a whole lot of her practice is modelled on things that are familiar to me also, using/hunting found objects, valuing woman’s work, anti-art, chance, knowing there will be a day when the collecting will find an appropriate fit and purpose. Her early influences and discoveries are also mine, Dada, Meret Oppenheim. And, what is value? The value is in the making/thinking.
http://www.objectspace.org.nz/events/ockham-residential-lecture-series-judy-darragh/
Finding time to find jewelleryness
I have been trying to find jewelleryness in my plastic pieces and when I finally got some space to look at the work, my challenge from Attai was to attach the plastic using other methods. So I started with tying the green ‘face’ on. Then to replicate the experiment, I cleaned up and cut up an oil bottle from my mother’s lawnmower…gold….and fiddled with the faces, then paired it back, and joined with brass screws that I’ve had for years. Trying to keep the spontaneous look I threaded some found brass pipe. Then I made another one using the clear mouthwash bottle. It’s different plastic and difficult to work with. So I threaded and burned cord. It looks amateur but I quite like its transparency and the chaos and order relationship. I finally had enough to show my mentor and have sent off another communication.
I was tapping some silver and remembered how wonderful and forgiving it is. Such a joy to work with and quite the opposite of plastic. This work takes time and desires time. And patience.
Now to focus on our upcoming show in Wellington, aptly named Signing In.
