We’ve broke up for half term now. The degree show is being put up during the first week back with the private view on Friday 11th. It’s the p.v. of the show I’m in that night too, so I’m going to be pushed for time going from one to the other. Mine starts at 7 so hopefully I’ll get to pop into theirs first, I’ll have to find out what time theirs starts.
I’ve been busy getting together images to show The Gallery Liverpool over the last couple of days. I really don’t know what would be best to put into the exhibition.
I went to listen to Dr. Timothy Martin talk about the life of Robert Smithson at The Royal Standard today. It was really interesting to have some insight into his life, I hadn’t realised what the man was about or what was behind his work at all. I have only ever looked at his land art work and found that I really like the intensity his earlier works. I desperately wanted to visit ‘Spiral Jetty’ when I was in Utah last year but it was a four hour journey from where I stayed. Even though I had read about that piece prior to going to Utah I hadn’t realised that it was his fixation with blood that led him to make that piece. I had been wanting to see it because it had been submerged in water for so long and was able to be seen again.
I liked the idea that others weren’t able to see it for so long even though they knew it was there and that it was a privilege to be able to walk its path.
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