I'm beginning to feel less nervous about signing in to our hangout and last night really enjoyed meeting up with the group ...I think it's going to be an interesting 3 years. We were discussing our blogs and I owned up to feeling vulnerable about having on online blog .....sharing my innermost thoughts with others. Before now, I've attempted to write a blog attached to my website, but always kept on deleting it when I have revisited ...it always seemed so trite.... however I will keep on going with this one as it is an essential part of the course and primarily, I am writing it as a record of me for myself.....I actually think it's ok to be vulnerable (even though not always a comfortable space to be in) and the TED talk from Brene Brown, http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html,crossed my mind.
Art wise I feel suspended in time, at the edge of previous work, with out knowing where I am going next. I'm quite glad to use the excuse of moving house to not be able to create any work ..... it's allowing me time to process and think through what I'm about,(both as a person and an artist and I want to hold the two together) although that's also been a struggle. Since starting the MFA and I've started reading, watching videos and discussing art my mind has felt overwhelmed with all the input. I'm interested in so many eclectic areas that I don't feel I know what my work is about and thus, don't know where to go next..... I haven't wanted to pin myself down to anything...... until last night when I couldn't sleep and was thinking through all things art......and the comment during my last tutorial (which I still haven't written up...oops) on my ability to produce 'seductive surfaces'. In a rambling way, I went onto think about my childhood influences and then my more recent influences and at 4am was scribbling notes.
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