{"id":1413,"date":"2015-09-23T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:57:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T12:57:36","slug":"a-new-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"a new city. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Edinburgh: glorious city, glorious weather<\/span>\"Edinburgh<\/a>& a two-day Paperlove<\/em> <\/a>alumni workshop, with Rachel Hazell<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"paper\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>we eat cake from these delightful plates – <\/strong><\/em>made of paper, <\/strong><\/em>naturally !<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

THE STUDIO<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"TheStudioWIndow\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"TheStudioSpace\"<\/a>\"MyWorkTable\"<\/a><\/p>\n

& exploratory WORK <\/strong>begins…
\n\"Notes4Book\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"vitainvestigating ideas around life and death, including Italian, a
\nlanguage I am aspiring to learn…
\n\"L&D
\nlooking at component parts to include in the finished book:
\ninteraction, acknowledgement, gift, mailart, teachers in death
\nand dying, notes to the living and to the dead, looking into
\nthe heart of the matter…………………..<\/p>\n

\"Documenting\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SmllMattrersLife&Death\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MapEnvelope\"<\/a>
\n\"collab&heart<\/a><\/p>\n

\"FoxyEnvelope\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"crayons&edges\"<\/a> \"Map&Edges\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MyNameTag<\/a><\/p>\n

\"SeeTheSewnHeart\"<\/a>
\ncan you see the heart stitched into the book’s spine?<\/p>\n

a satisfying three days exploring the content for the
\nevolving book small matters of life and death<\/em><\/p>\n

noticing things other people were exploring, such as Rose’s salt scatter<\/p>\n

\"salt<\/a><\/p>\n

and my extra day in the beautiful forbidding city was
\nspent ambling along the waters of Leith, people
\n-watching, and seeing all the amazing
\nvisuals a new city has to offer<\/p>\n

visited exhibitions too…<\/p>\n

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\nBailey’s Stardust<\/a> <\/em>\/ <\/strong>the Gormley half-figure \/<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"BaileyGormleyPortraits\"
\nThe Amazing World of MC<\/em> Escher<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

seeing my shadow in this Escher work, and on the light on the stairs:
\nselfies, selfies everywhere
\n\"Me&Escher\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Reflect@TheEscherExhib\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and so return to Bristol, invigorated and happily tired<\/h3>\n

\"plastic&millenfalls<\/a><\/p>\n

and the walls at Arnolfini, part of the wonderful retrospective of Richard Long’s work<\/p>\n

\"Longings\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 and a lovely quote from poet Jane Kenyon\r\n  \r\n\r\n  be a good steward of your gifts<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\u00a0 protect your time\r\n  feed your inner life\r\n<\/em>\u00a0 avoid too much noise<\/em><\/span>\r\n\u00a0 read good books, have good sentences in your ears<\/span><\/em>\r\n  be yourself as often as you can<\/span><\/em>\r\n  walk<\/span><\/em>\r\n  take the phone off the hook<\/span><\/em>\r\n  work regular hours<\/span><\/em>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Edinburgh: glorious city, glorious weather& a two-day Paperlove alumni workshop, with Rachel Hazell \u00a0\u00a0 we eat cake from these delightful plates – made of paper, naturally ! THE STUDIO \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n
Read Morea new city. . .<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"iawp_total_views":3,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[217,221,224,216,219,222,220,225,123,129,218,226,223],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-collaboration","tag-david-bailey","tag-edinburgh","tag-exploratory-work","tag-heart","tag-life-and-death","tag-mc-escher","tag-paper","tag-paperlove","tag-playfair","tag-richard-long","tag-strange-but-true","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":75,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}