I don't really know what drives me to them but I have these moments of
delusion semi regularly. The last was over a year ago when I decided to scan
into my laptop every piece of artwork Miss Seven had ever created. In total
there were 276 paintings, collages, etchings and sketchings.
For six movies over three night I sat wedged
between pillows, a scanner next to me and the laptop on my…lap. Until finally the project is complete. It is a project born from antenatal insomnia
but despite this a year later I am ready for another organisational task that potentially
outweighs this effort, immeasurably.
A
timeline style album of pics of the kids… pregnancy, birth, 6 weeks, six
months, first year, first Christmas… and on it goes. The album may never materialise but the
journey it is submerging me in is an outcome in itself. I have almost been swallowed by this pictorial
evolution of my life now. Transported mythically through the past eight years; the
narratives that accompany each shot are full of duality, raw and wild, cultivated
and nurturing, inclusive and intimate. I
am immersing myself in the energy the task is creating that feels indescribable with words because
it is visual in its essence. It is
enticing me away from my pen and page and I am allowing this…For now.
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