Art Talks, C.I.C's and Dimensions Tutorial in new studio space.

 

Put a poster together for the Art Talks programme and worked with Kite to confirm some more arrangements and put the art film shorts together.

Arranged a meeting with Clair from Career Connect, Kite and Poppy, to discuss how to set up the croK. Art group and got some really useful information back.

Had a dimensions tutorial with Ian:

The idea of dress up (as a witch) if you were dressing for what your career aspirations were.

Contemporary ways to take this forward playing out the identity of witches.

I explained that I'm looking deeper into the psychological impacts of the witch trials on women as we've a strange perceived sense of equality but socially and psychologically we've not even caught up with where we are.

Innocent or gullible; considerations around responsibility displacement

Look at KiKi's delivery service - I ordered a DVD but it came in German so need to source on B.O.B (library access is down) will look at amazon prime.

• - themes around the changes from girl to woman - social and biological "becoming the witch"
• Is it a metaphor for change?
• Accessible film that doesn't operate in the same way as simple'd down animations aimed at kids.

Discussed potential paintings and references - I had considered the woman in a feotal position to begin another painting. ..but Ian suggested that it's not necessary as the same readings could be drawn from candid photos - without being as literal as the foetal position.and suggested that I

• aim to keep the same approach to photography, changing the language through the translation of the image into paint. The photographs that I'm using at the moment anchor a type of reality that moves as it's processed into paint.
• the anchor is there and we can enjoy the slippage.

I explained that I may run out of the type of photographic images that I'm using - but Ian suggested that I can create new photographs - I'm as aware of photos being taken now as I was at any point that a photo was taken in the past. Can I take photos of the everyday or ask someone to take photos for me ?