Tim's FAD

 Vis |Com's 23rd March saw some thinking around Stonehenge 21st Century and Album Art works re-imagined starting with a sort of Stonehenge Filling in some blanks in Stonehenge. LP Covers I had thought about this for quite some time, the idea of a work of art that many millions of copies could be made and distributed quite 'democratically, how I had discovered Bridget Riley as an artist  (personally!)   and  even making early moves in that direction. How could I re-imagine an LP with a different cover from that we have lived with for many years - should a re-mastered album have a new cover perhaps? My Art Board game continued to develop too -how would the property spaces be, perhaps gallery/Studio/Exhibition space What would  a 'win' in Artopoly look like?  Ideas around Auctioning and the global market percolating through

 On the next core day we looked at idea development and artists with Ute and she spoke of her mixed career and the materials/approaches she uses  My thoughts around an art game were moving forward ... (other ideas being LP covers and Stonehenge) Thinking time

 In the Sculpture session this week I started to 'realise' an idea I had around Stonehenge - how could it be re-imagined, perhaps filling in some of the wholes and thinking how it could be in the 21st century, what materials would be the equivalent on the 'stone'  . What events would be celebrated and how would it develop an atmosphere for happy creativity? I started with some cardboard which is fast becoming my material to help me see a 3D vision. A start of a Stonehenge        Another material for a 'henge'

 On the 16th of March we met up at Holborn Station for a visit organised by Rod - it was a mystery destination which turned out to have quite a story behind it and which again raised questions (for me) about what was 'Art' and what was Vis Com. Some dark ideas including divorce  And perhaps celebrity/fame? Rod did not tell us much about the exhibition apart  from 'keep it to yourselves.' Well here's some news Rod - the place is at  1a Princeton Street London WC1 - follow the link  -  A little research revealed that the person behind it was  Tim Hunkin   who has a 'job' somewhere between eccentric, designer and artist he had a TV show on channel 4 that you can still see some episodes from on Youtube (like this one  all about the VCR- ) In fact the expedition reminded me of a hero of mine  Professor Bruce Lacey and I thought again oh yes, that things can be 'fun' and also have a message. I started to think about a sort of a hyb...

It was an interesting experience to take part in a sort of impromptu exhibition of work within a CityLit Studio- the common theme being that we were on the same Foundation course did not to my mind create a theme and the 'Artists' had different approaches.   I had been working to the theme of an Alice in Wonderland experience in Kew Gardens and I am not sure how others experiencing what I had produced were judging this but I quite like the overall effect and (in my mind) had something of Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés (in English: Given) - I'd like to see this work which I understand is in Philadelphia (USA). Here are some views of it being put together in the classroom. A blank canvas (only it wasn't canvas)     creating a sort of diorama almost there. It was good to review all the works as a group - I did feel that I was perhaps more literal and less oblique but hearing what others felt about the pieces was useful - I fear (as did others about their own work)  ...

 

London as a surreal  holiday destination