Red Thread Trail

Today wasn't a particularly busy day.. I have been focusing mainly on my paintings and how to exhibit them. I want to build boxes with doors that can open and reveal the painting inside

However, it will not be as simple as I first thought. Since I want the boxes to resemble cards I need the hinges to be invisible for the viewer when the box is shut. Therefor I need to use hidden hinges which are placed on the inside of the door. The issue here is that the door will be made in such a light and thin material which I will not be able to drill into, so I cannot use screws to fasten the hinge to the door. The helpful woodwork technician told me he needed to think about ways to solve this over the weekend. He was very optimistic about it though, and convinced we shouldn't give up, so on monday morning I will go back and we'll see what we can come up with.

Today at uni there was also a visiting artist, Justin Coombes who held a talk about his practise.
I felt enormously inspired by his concept of combining his own poems and photos into artistic books portraying an alternative reality in the most beautiful way.

Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Ghost at the Feast

Somewhere

Sonnet for Aeko

Song of My Womb

Ri-ri! Ri-ri! Ri-ri! Ri-ri!

My halcyon song stretches proud, shrill, long 

and my unborn darlings echo the call 
in canal

and river and city and sea!


That swirling soup of refuse that I spied 

this morning as the lock rose up


reminded me, as all things do in 

pregnancy, of my divine insides.


Reader, take these musings lightly,


but see that home looked for when cruising 

can shift like silt: nests when floating 

can drift away towards cloud sightings 

updownupwards, where the mind sings,


from trails of swirling trash where it all begins. 

(from "Halcyon Song", Coombes 2nd book)

This talk made me feel positive about my "Question Card" project again. Image and text can go very well together without explaining too much or making the concept too obvious for the viewer/reader. I also feel optimistic now about my future dream of publishing my own illustrated poems. 

Tomorrow Jennie will have her film showing in her home. I'm VERY excited about seeing her films. 

It will be so fun! Have a lovely Friday everyone!!!

Nadja