I have learnt I needed something. I no longer think I can just produce work and not validate it in some way. I will need to take the audience into account in each case and produce literature to enhance the understanding of what the drive is behind my practice.

Paper paste and synergy.

Labels with the ingredients or the objects use would have worked well-enough to have given clues/direction.

I had decided not to label or provide literature. Reflecting on this post the silent crit- I feel that how ever simple I wanted to keep the presentation labels positioned lower right to each of the 4 collections of bowels, canvases that made the whole piece would have unified the piece. I would not have wanted to over-describe the process or highlight it beyond the ingredients used as I think although the process is important I want to leave a little guess work and intrigue. For example ”Bowl and canvas 1 – made in the kitchen using paper from the cheese, labels from the jam and thinly cut print outs of the manga carter signed by King John of England 15 June 1215.One of the most important documents in history as it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial. ”No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.””To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”

Inspired by the process of correcting involved making a Moon Jar.

This seems heavy.

Or ”made in the kitchen using paper from the cheese, labels from the jam and thinly cut print outs of the manga carter signed by King John of England 15 June 1215. Crafted in the manner of a moon jar, correction makes beauty.”

Vessel / Canvas 2: Ingredients cotton boxers, nappy muslin, love letters combined with gesso- a Chalkie powder held together with a skin binder/Brown paper, kitchen cupboard ingredients on canvas tightly stretched on a hand made frame.

I need to mock up some labels and see what the gutter gang think.

O.W. said labels in the crit and a few other comments were made but no one really managed to get much further than domestic and unusual ingredients.

My other thought which I also discarded was to use someone else’s words that had inspired me for example.

1/ANGELS

You might see an angel anytime

and anywhere. Of course you have

to open your eyes to a kind of

second level, but it’s not really

hard. The whole business of

what’s reality and what isn’t has

never been solved and probably

never will be. So I don’t care to

be too definite about anything.

I have a lot of edges called Perhaps

and almost nothing you can call

Certainty. For myself, but not

for other people. That’s a place

you just can’t get into, not

entirely anyway, other people’s

heads.

I’ll just leave you with this.

I don’t care how many angels can

dance on the head of a pin. It’s

enough to know that for some people

they exist, and that they dance.

Mary Oliver.

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