It's drawings that seem to want to come first. Some of the objects I'm finding, particularly certain corals, are suggesting to me that drawing might be an appropriate response, at least to start with. Perhaps this also offers me a way out of the impasse of overintellectualising I got stuck in after trying to write a funding application before I had really felt my way into this project. Too many words, ideas and theories coming too soon. Hundreds of photographs. Thousands of objects in the collection, each one opening up a whole world of possibility. Thoroughly bamboozling.
Drawing seems to create space to think without thinking 'about'. I'm getting very interested in how drawing can explore the ways natural forms self-create, using slow, repetitive, simple accretions to develop highly complex structures. This is something I hope to get a chance to work on over the summer. You could say these drawings are time consuming, but it doesn't feel like they are consuming time. It's more like they are creating time, exploring time, recording time. The process feels very spacious.
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