My plan when I set up my website in late 2008 was to then make this blog into a place where I'd record the fabrication of art-works and commissioned project, and provide insight into my creative process, and what motivates me and where I draw my inspiration, references and such. I haven't done so well with this.
This is in part because I've had a pretty fallow year. 2008/9 was a year of very involved applications, portfolio submissions and proposal outlines for nationally advertised public art commissions and very little actual creative work. It's been frustrating being shortlisted for commission after commission without securing one. [there's possibly a blog post in the making about my thoughts about my experience in and opinions of the public art commissioning process] I decided that I'd stop making these time consuming, costly and so far futile applications, spend some time doing recreational creative activities and work out other ways of identifying and approaching prospective clients.
I've also found it tricky to take photos of stuff as it happens, a combination of being somewhat preoccupied in making the stuff happen and being kinda self conscious about the mess and kak-handed-ness that often accompanies my working process. But as I was reminded by a friend who caught sight of my workbench with some components laid out and waiting, there's something appealing or at the very least intriguing about materials i choose and how things are put together.
TwentyTen needs to be a different kind of year from 2009. I think that being disciplined about communicating my creative process here might be one way to improve my ability to communicate my ideas, interests and motivations to contacts and prospective clients.
So I shall begin. Tomorrow. By photographing the bubbles blown this weekend, that are cooling in a lehr in West Norwood as I write.
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