Edinburgh: glorious city, glorious weather& a two-day Paperlove alumni workshop, with Rachel Hazell
we eat cake from these delightful plates – made of paper, naturally !
THE STUDIO
investigating ideas around life and death, including Italian, a
language I am aspiring to learn…
looking at component parts to include in the finished book:
interaction, acknowledgement, gift, mailart, teachers in death
and dying, notes to the living and to the dead, looking into
the heart of the matter…………………..
can you see the heart stitched into the book’s spine?
a satisfying three days exploring the content for the
evolving book small matters of life and death
noticing things other people were exploring, such as Rose’s salt scatter
and my extra day in the beautiful forbidding city was
spent ambling along the waters of Leith, people
-watching, and seeing all the amazing
visuals a new city has to offer
visited exhibitions too…
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Bailey’s Stardust / the Gormley half-figure /
The Amazing World of MC Escher
seeing my shadow in this Escher work, and on the light on the stairs:
selfies, selfies everywhere
and so return to Bristol, invigorated and happily tired
and the walls at Arnolfini, part of the wonderful retrospective of Richard Long’s work
and a lovely quote from poet Jane Kenyon
be a good steward of your gifts
protect your time
feed your inner life
avoid too much noise
read good books, have good sentences in your ears
be yourself as often as you can
walk
take the phone off the hook
work regular hours
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