I had thought to start posting the weekly image I create from my consideration of the daily word but on further reflection have decided that I will start that next Sunday so I each image will be a month on from their inspiration which will give me some space to continue to create the next months with fresh eyes and clear mind.
I did not begin the weekly images until March of this year till then consideration of the daily word in notes put in a small pad plus postcard size doodles of day were the elements but during February I began to consider the shapes and colours I see when each daily word is presented to me and decided this was an expansion of this practice that needed to be approached practically. As it stands at the moment each Sunday I aim to put the shapes and colours together in a whole. This will mean a 52 page 'book' for the year , there are other strands to this I feel but am not clear as yet what but I certainly see the book being similar to the wallpaper sample books with a handle to carry it and bolts through the 'spine' to hold it all together. I loved those books when I was a child all that colour and texture I suppose.
So instead of not posting an image here today I place another pastel. It is part of a group of work that I'm doing to try to open up how it is to live my life with vertigo and other 'differences'.
All the works I am creating for this project are snapshots on a journey that never finds arrival destination just many stopping and shuddering to a halt viewing points but as a group may just open a small window on living this life.
This picture I've called Landscape of Vertigo.
The mount around the picture is not fixed permenantly as this is just the first stage for this piece of paper but I thought the mount might help viewers see it a little clearer. It's soft pastel on cartridge paper and at present measures 30"X26"
Working with fragments is what I feel I do and often the fragments need to be further fragmented so that a wholeness may be built from that. This is certainly what is happening with this project which is bubling gently and progresses slowly but surely. I will probably post further 'excerpts' from this project over time but the total sum of the piece will almost certainly not be seen here till after the beginning of my New Year which begins in November.
