A course and an exhibition

The first thing I want to mention is that I took part in a week long course a couple of weeks ago, and the tutelage of Fraser Taylor, entitled 'develop your studio practice', I wanted to spend some dedicated time trying to see if I could pull together some of the strands I've been following over the last few months, grappling with ideas for making art related to my experiences of being involved in a serious accident which resulted in sight loss. The sense of being in a liminal state pervaded my life afterwards, and one of the only ways I could feel my way through it was to try and express it through making art in various forms. But how to pull together something which was by its essence broken, fragmented, full of blanks (like my eyesight, and memory) and without a visible end? The course was excellent and Fraser immediately grasped what I was saying and understood that the liminal happens also on the verges of different forms of art, which was also something I was drawn to. The sense of feeling my way (blindly) isn't something I need to resist, in itself this mirrors the experience. I pull together as best I can, but the gaps keep opening, resisting any attempts to be controlled. This is, surely a creative process in itself. The end result can only be an exhibition, or perhaps a small scale exhibition in the form of a book, or a few books.....

Saying that, next week I am putting some work of mine up together in one space for an open studios event and following exhibition. This is for the 'outward me' to put some work into public and see what happens.