The drawing process yesterday felt like we were becoming to know pieces more intimately – we were supposed to change pieces for every drawing
I stayed with the same piece for three exercises
In the afternoon there was a panel discussion about the assemblage – here are the notes I made – my thinking is in first person
Negative spaces
Feeling the shapes awareness of if my hand fitted – some smaller a lot fitted – left handed just put them in my right hand
My hand fitted holding their hand
Rachel Whiteman house turner prize
How will my drawings be used as part of the research process ?
Another part of the projects were sheets of paper attached to the walls which were typed up with info about the people who made the impressions- what they wrote when they held and squeezed the wet clay
The impressions
Interaction with clay finger prints – how it fit in the persons hand / mood / pressure
Different types fist around porcelain – look like bones
Artifacts /teddy/ rose
Assemblage defy classification
Individual engagement
Collection components
Process
Arrangement – straight lines of white shapes on black
Become part of a larger group
Words help the interpretation of interaction
my oil pastel and Conte crayon drawing
Potter / ceramicist
Shrinkage of clay in firing
found data set weird
Finger prints fade in firing
Porcelains moves in the kiln
Before fire/ after firing
Captured moments
Transition of time
Process
Journey
600 pieces want to make 1,000
Images made in the morning – beginning of
What happens next
Medical background
Out patients – huge variety of people very different – people coming into the hospital wanted to know what was going on – people willing – nice thing to do – hospital staff deal with patients – totally different – broke monotony – what next ? Part of a hospital move – shapes going into the new building part of the old building moving forward
Tactile
Filling out forms a few moments only writing
Connection to people who one works with – may not be relevant in 2yrs/ 10 yrs time
Guess work – how did people feel just by looking
Unsaid stuff
What don’t we know?
People behind the impressions
Array of white objects
Sameness and difference
Unique and the same
Irregular / regular
Humour random
Assemblage
My number
Numbers imprinted on each shape
Holocaust
Sense of loss / scale
Fragile and solid
Here’s me in the moment
Encounters
Impression there for others
Leaving Traces of bodies stories people
Evoke
More questions and answers
Qualitative research
Hugging ceramics
Grasp
Do objects require any more narratives
Stands alone objects ?
What can one read from it ?
Data protection number / ties in to paper
Life / death
Bones
Numbers – numberless dead
Evoke – numbers become irrelevant
Always slippage
Ceramicist slippage
Transitional states
Disconnection between the objects
Personal
The personal
Who do they belong to?
Drawing – looking at shape form texture weight – abstracted from what they are
Removed from the human element looking at porcelaine its self how it was altered into shapes – ones that One liked or didn’t like
Saw hills mountains – fir cones landscape
Others saw Sea weed shells corals drawings made the impressions seem more real different interpretations
Experience of loss
Material change materiality – first time children touched clay – youngest one is 3 days old
Loss of the hand
What is there ? what is not there ?
May be active assemblages
What is this doing ?
Enabled passing of time
Haunting
Engagement
Different perspectives of people and the experience of the panel discussion
Still a folding
Still becoming
Inbetween
Inbetween intimacy and institution
Influx
Impact on a patient
Impression that patients leave on staff
Holding hands when some one passes away
Inbetween life and death human kind – universal
Edinburgh centric – conversation between
One building and another
Art versus illness
A Hurts + Heals project, as part of NHS Lothian’s Art & Therapeutic Design Programme.
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