Gardens Project 12: First Post in 3 Months
At Christmas, as I was awaiting new year with bated breath, ready to make myself new resolutions and approach 2022 with a renewed vigour I got offered a job. Quite out of the blue an agency I had signed up with when I retired emailed me to see if I wanted to take up an interim position at a college not too far away and within a couple of days I’d spoken to the college and decided to go.
The good thing about this is that it shifted me out of my rut and meant I had, for at least some of my days, a defined purpose that wasn’t just about me. The bad thing is that even though it was initially only four days a week focus on anything else goes right out of the window.
I have been doing some things though…
I’ve joined a website for Yorkshire Artists, https://yorkshire.art/directory/artist/ian-latham/
had a meeting about the lemniscate project,
Three Lemniscate maquettes
I’ve carried on drawing every day and you can see the February images here
The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.
and produced a couple of bigger studio drawings.
Drawing of a fox in the garden at Balby – Charcoal 100x90cm In Progress
The attic studio from above – pencil 90x90cm
I’ve also had to revisit the gardens project in VR as I made a series of mistakes that meant I had to rebuild the environment. My lack of knowledge leads to my constant stepping back to check and repeatedly changing my mind about where I’m going with this project. I do think (?) that I know what the installation will look like now, the piece will be entered through interactions with a set of platonic solids and will explore their associations with the classical elements. The faces of the dodecahedron being used as entry points to the different experiences.
I’ve started to adapt the narrative into a twine so that I can explore the different routes through it. This in effect doubles the number of chapters, or at least chapter headings? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.
The Gardens project posts start here
I also finished my painting of a rose
Balby Rose Oil on Board 50x50cm