Look mum no hands!
Ok so a lot has happened since last we spoke. 3rd new site in as many months but Wix seems good so far and best of all - its free, which suits my current circumstance. Old domain name is gone, but then what’s in a name?!
Started a Masters degree in Sculptural Practice with the aim of refocussing my practice.
“Echoes of intense enforced recuperative isolation in darkness”
First three weeks I’ve been exploring tool forms - I feel an intense pull toward prehistoric tools, wood, bone and antler as materials of choice. (I do intend to incorporate metals at some point). Feedback has been mainly positive with some of the tools beginning to recur as 'spike like' forms which are falling into two recognisable categories; needles and stylus.
Currently looking into ritual;
Personal - pseudoneurologica, somatoforms, compulsions, intrusive obsessive thoughts
Ceremonial - warding, shaming, divining, renewal, joining
Picture is of my first attempt at cuneiform inscribed into a wax tablet.
Further reading;-
James Hillman - Archetypal polytheistic psychology