Writing my Navigators critical essay has been a challenge.

It has been torn up a few times made into a collage and then incorporated in a jar I was making/trying to make, my favourite type of making-no rules, feel your way through it. It collapsed I fixed it with my essay and rabbit skin glue which made a better sense of my completely incoherent ramblings, and it became a bowl.

Then I stuck a tangerine in it, it seemed to complete it in some way.

The rabbit skin glue will dry to a brittle skin if you get it right and it makes the paper almost glass-like. Not unlike the glaze on the moon jar I’m drawing. I may try a bit of marble dust in the mix.

I felt much better and went off to tear up some more photos and writing. So my navigator’s project has crossed into my artefact project. Time to write the essay and let it go.

I understand Louise B. more every day I’m doing this tearing up although the remaking is more Lee K.

Wonder when I start to make and mend?

Louise Bourgeois and her art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eowlcnpEXw

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/04/the-spiders-web

Lee Krasner physically bought forward from the past, by reconstructing earlier work to create new pieces that fitted with her current practice.

In her own words:

A long read if you fancy one:

https://sites.barbican.org.uk/introducingleekrasner/

I was very intrested in her cart wheel tables made from found objects.

She could have just used a box as a coffee table but no, like a magpie she gathered made a piece that could be looked at and wondered about and be used on a daily basis.

So I’m learning to let go.

I may try drawing circles around things, as Louise B does.

Although at the group crit. on Thursday it was mentioned I already am. Wow, I need to draw a circle around me. I followed a new list way of talking, thought I’d give it a go. I focused too hard and did not pause, overran so didn’t get much out of it.

It was a lecture, not what was wanted, ditto remark about my essay too. At least I didn’t clam up this time. I need to practise and work out what is being requested in each case.

I need to find the correct method for each case.

I need to go back over my notes and the sendouts on presentation, tutorials and crits. See Moodle.

My list for the crit and the areas I was wondering about were.

Is a story important to the audience and if so how best to evidence it?

As the process of making the object is important how to I evidence that in a painting?

How do I convay my investigations?

Is anything relevant or of interest other than the one remade/reimagined artefact?

It is to me, but is to the audience?

Back to the essay/making more bowls.