In yesterdays lecture we discussed the possibility of voicing 'what I've done' and 'what I'm going to do' to each other each week. I like the idea of setting myself a weekly target and then reviewing it. In the summer I bought myself a diary, I wondered whether having an 'art specific' place to write what was happening with a blank page next to each week where I could jot down ideas, thoughts and things that needed attention would be helpful. So far I'm still getting into the swing of using it but I do like it. It's helping me feel more organised and also providing a place where I can go back to find that great idea I had because I've actually written it down. Previously I had a place for creative ideas in my sketchbook but nowhere for the surrounding ideas.
I have achieved a couple more layers on my large print and I have also set myself the target of printing some more of my small etchings and developing the plates slightly further this week while the layers on the larger prints dry.
The main content of the lecture was to consider and discuss ideas presented in the work of William Kentridge in an interview titled 'How we make sense of the world'. I had heard of him but wasn't familiar with his work so I found this fascinating. It seemed to me to have links to the research about place I've been doing and how our experience of the world is shaped by place as the central starting point for our frame of reference, even if this changes over the course of our life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G11wOmxoJ6U