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The Most Beautiful Thing in the World!

As of late, thanks to my dear landlord, I have been incredibly poor, so yesterday I had to take the long walk into town. But because of this I past an old bungalow that is being gutted.
On its front garden amongst all the rubble was this BEAUTY!

I'm not really sure why but I found this old torn apart piano magnificent. I really want to go back and ask if I can have it. I want to use it somehow to show how it is that it makes me feel. An object that can possess such brilliance, and produce such beautiful music. If there was any instrument I could play it would be this one.

Underglass.

Last night, the lovely Natalia, Layne and her Ryan and I went to see the new performance called Underglass in Bristol at The Old Vic
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Under Glass is a new performance piece by the Clod Ensemble, directed by Suzy Willson, composed by Paul Clark. It is a cabaret of performance pieces, which exist within life-size glass cabinets or jars. Each piece features a different performer (who may be a dancer, a performance artist or an actor), a different original musical score and a distinct visual environment and movement language. The glass containers themselves are specially commissioned pieces, made-to-measure for each performer and each performance space. Examining ideas of claustrophobia and belonging, Under Glass is an exploration of how we can live within our limits.

WINNER OF TOTAL THEATRE AWARD 2009

My feet were killing me the whole time and desperately wanted to sit down but once I had forgot about the foot pain, I realised the performace was very eerie.
We were led into a pitch black room, when the lights started to flash on and off over a lady in a jar. With every flash she changed position, which was a short period of time so was very skillful.
Overall it was a very 'scary and creepy' performance, with dramatic music to add to the effect.

New York. (and Philly)

Been flicking through photo albums, and found some of these babies from my New York trip in April.

Although most of them don't fit in with my studio practice at the moment, I've noticed that some of them do show good example of collections

P.s I'm so excited about getting my new camera!! ahhhh!!

Illumnate Bath Week.

So this week has been a brand new yearly arts festival right here in Bath. On Tuesday night I went to the Circus to catch a part of Olivia Thomson's kinetic bike ride

Photo is thanks to Natalia and her blog, it was very cold but the bikes looked amazing all light up, most people had attached glow sticks to their handlebars. Her ambition was 'to encourage people to get back on their bikes, burn some calories, save on petrol costs and have some fun!'

Also at the circus was Sarah Johnston's Luxarbourscope

 It was intended to capture the light from car headlights as they entered the circus roundabout and through he mirrors in the box to project it into the trees, brilliant idea but unfortunately however many cars came past I never saw it work.

After a long walk down to Green Park Tavern Jenny Cooper had her installation set up, 'All that glitters is not Gold'.

This involved viewers taking part, with a OHP and a large collection of found objects.

Over at the pump rooms Bob Ferns had set up an amazing projection. It was all to do with eye tacking, each persons eye movements were recorded as a different coloured dot, they were asked to look at an image of the building for 30 seconds and then asked to draw it from memory.

 Wednesday night, my walk into town pasted the Fashion Museum. I'm not sure if this was related to the festival but the building was lit up in reds and purples! which looked amazing reflected off the wet floor.

 In Milsons Place Will Kendrick and Alex Cotterell had set up a projection. It was to do with their mutual love of colour and light. 

'Working with projectors, screens and video cameras, Alex and Will experiment with fractal formations found in live video feedback to achieve light and colour emissions.

These light based interventions offer an engaged and immersive viewer experience in response to a specific space, catalysing renewed perceptions of spatial parameters.'