I am starting to understand the process of creating/developing a project in terms of my art practice. It might be the case that a conscious pattern is laid down for an individual when approaching how work is to be produced. This pattern if maintained would enable the artist to carrying on producing work via their process without much questioning of the process itself. I have removed myself for a number of years from a continual production & research process, and for the last year I have wrestled with my process and like a half forgotten joke, it has been hard to recall. I think I am now able to move forward as I have an understanding of how my practice now takes place. I will engage in research; collect imagery & footage; discuss ideas; seek out similar work and then when I feel full enough the time for making starts. It can seem cathartic in that there is an emptying as your ideas and thoughts are made real. A form of confession takes place where the insecurities and half doubts are placed to one side for a time while you construct.
My immediate agenda, helped by the critical framework of the course, is to place my practice/research/concerns in relation to other modes past and present. I have found myself drawn to other artists who engage in a playful state of questioning the status quo in large or small terms. Gordon Matta-Clark's 'interventions' with buildings and his use of food (literal description and noun) to bring a critical gaze into the local neighbourhood, is a compulsion I have discovered in my own practice.

As I am feeling full I will stop to:

Develop and finalise idea for 'inside/out? show in Falmouth at the beginning of March

Complete the application for ?east? show in Norwich

Apply for bursary from the rwa

Consolidate the idea of producing a 1 page constructed newspaper 'the bowery'

I have for the last few weeks been working for Creative Partnerships on a project called 'Virtual Hurlers' based in Bodmin/Liskard. I have been shadowing the lead artist James Barber, learning my way round a primary school classroom as an artist. It is a huge learning curve. It is one thing to be in a group of like minds and another to be asked pertinent questions about what you do by a 10yr old.

Also I have finally managed to complete my task that was set before Christmas, by my collaborative group to sit on a bench for 2 hours in a specific location (Causewayhead, Penzance). The outcome of this will be on a webpage that the group can link to. It suits the nature of the footage, image and text. It is now my task to request something from the other members of the group.