We had an intro, a few days to sort out our ideas, tutors to ask for advice, before we pitched our SOI.

I scribbled and mind mapped, listed and looked up, On my way home I went to the library to collect more books and found a few more on Antoni Tàpies.(tap for Tate link).

I know the answer is somewhere in that library.

On Tuseday I put my feet up and started at wall in room 13.

I got my note book out and plotted my way around the 3 A1 sheets I drafted up yesterday. I printed images as I went noting their sources.

Things began to repeat.

Ian and Lee were around but inundated with tutorial requests. I managed to get a moment with Ian, I was surprised he wasn’t that discouraging- my wall looked like a mess. I was trying to whittle my words and ideas down. Ian suggested that I looked at the way I bounced from one idea to the next. It was the bounce that I needed to investigate. The what, the why, the how. If I was going to pitch my idea in one minute on Thursday I needed to be clearer and make it interesting. My ideas and the process were important, but with only a minute, I should use big, broad brush stokes. “Paint the hill not the path or pots holes on the way up it, and defiantly no disappearing down any rabbit holes” said Ian.

I had a quick rehearsal on the spot, ok ish, but I got the point.