conceptual>>>>>>>>>>>>>back to process again

interestingly I spontaneously began working again today
when it starts is the right time
I woke up and knew what I wanted to do and spent all day doing it! Ever since I decided to do 3D for the coming term I have been grieving over not being able to use canvas supports and the whole process of preparation to easeinto the work. So I've been thinking in the place of doing.
This morning I knew. I built a new support for holding 3D work which is partof the piece and is strong enought to hold a total weight of +40kg, on a wall!

Solving this problem has opened he way for a whole raft of ideas/series .

from process>>>>>>>>>>conceptual

Last night I could not sleep and spent hours dreaming and thinking about Conceptual Art.
I have already signalleda shift in my emphasis next term and now I have begun thinking about it. Round and round, names, titles, whole concepts that I can create and yet I haven't a clue as to how to make them happen. It's completely an opposite operation from 'process'.
In french we say...ca ma prise la tete! ( it has taken my head)
Reading about it today.

Andy Goldsworthy.

Something else that happened in Wellington, was getting access to books at the central library.
This book by Andy Goldsworthy was fantastic. It has opened up all sorts of new ideas of how I can work, something I will put into action next term.. Once again serving to contract my 'studio' space and make myself more flexible for being on the road and travelling.

I just love the description of the work and some process. These are two photographs I took from the book before I was accosted by the security guard. This type of work I visited with my rock scape at Cape Foulwind last year. I feel there is much to explore here.
The use of text to support the work also appeals. I looked at his work a year ago and felt nothing at all. And now I am completely enchanted and inspired.

Telecom Prospect 2007

Here begins the story of my love affair with et al.
Last week I went to Wellington, New Zealand, and at the end of a brilliant week doing Genuine Contact program ( Train the Trainers) I spent two days focused on art in the city, whats on, standing in front of pictures etc. I had my first experience of an installation by Et Al.
I had just come from doing work with GC and Open Space Technology both of which utilize the mythological and dynamic meaning of the circle to inform subsequent beliefs and processes. The relationship between this work and my art is centred on some ideas of Adults as Learners, Left Brain and Right Brain Thinking and so on. Read this from the book by Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind. (2005)
I realized when I saw the Et Al installation that I could completely recontextualize my Art Vision and align it with my work with Open Space Technology and Creativity. Perhaps it is simply a way of contracting my current art model in readiness for travelling to Canada in a couple of months.
Et Al used found materials, common objects, music, image, light boxes and paper, masking tape, felt markers......these are all the basic tools I use when I facillitate Open Space Technology events/meetings.
There are some common threads that I am trying to weave into my work.