recovery

It has been such a long time. Christmas has been a fantastic time, much family- much celebration. Much empty headedness, void-filled creative vacuum, anxiety around the amount of time outside the studio. Ideas drifting in and out of the frontal lobes... the delusion of novelty bathing concepts in a flattering light until they have kicked arounf my brain long enough to lose their lustre... perhaps the hiatus between studio sessions has been useful after all. A notorious sucker for a new idea, and famously lazy at sticking with one, I have been kicking the same couple ideas around for the festive period. It's a good test of an idea to sit on it for a few weeks. The T-Shirt project has simmered on- my rants and ill-thought opinions worming their way onto a few designs but generally the novelty for this project has also kept its productivity to a grumbling low. The Truths project- a series of rambling explorations of a handful of universal truths inspired by the song 'trouble man' - has also gathered a bit of dust as well as momentum, depending on how you look at it...


There's only three things
That's for sho'
Taxes, death and trouble, h'oh!

...and during various dog walks, washing up's and other mindless chores I have been ruminating on the many possibilities for such a theme. I have even begun to gather some information from others, setting up a facebook page entitled "The Fact Is..." where folks can pen their own universal truths, statements and sentiments... that also will, I am sure, lose momentum and rot like the many other ongoing operations currently unfinished. Hopefully the results will be published via exhibitions, installations and the like. Possibly Wirksworth Festival, possibly some empty shop unit.