Earlier this year I joined Edinburgh Printmakers so I could expose screens and create new works in my studio. Luckily for me it is just around the corner from Superclub and so far, so good- though to make it cost effective I have to expose at least two full screens at once. Hassle.
On seeing the call for submissions at the Printmakers, I applied for the collaboration The Written Image, a project run by the Printmakers and the Scottish Poetry Library.
My application was successful and I have been paired with the thought provoking and like minded, Samuel Tongue. The project is in its infancy and is as it should be – intriguing, confusing and a plethora of tempting ideas.
In these early days of the project Sam and I agreed that we’d like to see what happens to the printed words when they are left in the elements for a long period of time. We have until October, that should do it.
These snippets have stayed with me, the words lodged in my brain. I find I scrawl them sporadically in my sketch book,
words interlaced like drowning fingers text : textile
See more of The Written Image here: http://thewrittenimage.tumblr.com/
In other news I have been somewhat frantically writing applications, it is encouraging and exciting to find that there are always things to which I want to apply. They take time and brain space and can be heartbreaking if you get too attached to your proposed idea.
Off to the festies now, The Inisder and Glastonbury. I have printed a couple of things to take with me, a travel series. Watch this space etc etc