Am feeling very confused about this blog - how can it be non-subjective, it is as the name blog suggests, a log and if it is a log about my work and progress then it has to be subjective so tomorrow will continue with it in a way that is useful for me instead of all this procrastinating.  I also think that I need to go back over my journal in order for the blog to make sense as there is a beginning to this.

Yesterday's session in the glass studio with Davina was both interesting and useful and am looking forward to seeing the results on Friday. Used an image derived from my chicken bone spine.  I'm interested in using hard materials.  Drapery in itself soft and flowing has been depicted in hard materials - stone, marble, paint on hard surface etc.. It's that dichotomy that interests me.

The Critical Dialogues lecture was given by Lyndall Phelps who has an exhibition, Soft Kill, in the Gallery at the moment.  She charted the journey through the work from its beginning up to the exhibition.  An interesting story of pathways and connections and work alongside scientists.  Apart from being an interesting story in itself it was also very encouraging. Fascinating exhibition too.

Connections and making connections are important to me and my work - there needs to be a reason why something is done or used.  Looking back over the years that I have been working there has always been a connection in my work.  It may not be obvious or visible to the viewer and, I think, is often missed.  But for me it is there so giving weight and a certain gravitas  to the work.

Boats

Extremely pleased with the bone spine from yesterday and have been drawing it today.  I find it satisfying and useful to draw from my own made pieces, it delves into the subject matter even more and brings out new things.  I think I'll  make a stencil from the drawing to use on Tuesday in the glass studio.  Read more about Twombly this morning.  I am fascinated by his fascination with the past and came across his “Nine Discourses on Commodus” (1963)  

Found some little tiny stitched African figures from long ago, think they might work inside the cubes which I think are going to be little reliquary/tabernacles for collections.  Put one into a plasticine mould filled with plaster which by chance turned out looking like a girl standing in a boat.  Perhaps it's Caroline and her rebellious teenage voyage into the unknown.