Jerwood Bank 2007

Duration: 03:20 minutes

I’ve really enjoyed the showings.  The last week has been one small step in my material,  but one huge leap in my head. Suddenly I’ve realised the door to the cage has always been open.  The alter ego has really pushed the material and allowed for more range.  Suddenly there are so many possibilities and things I’d like to try, but so little time left! It’s great to see everyone else’s material and how it has changed between the two showings. 

Rohanna filmed on the 4th September.
Duration: 33 seconds

Having the showing today was useful.  It now feels like the beginning again. So many times I have felt like I have come back to the beginning.  It was good to really try and do the material to it’s full potential rather then in the corner farting about not really doing it. 

It seems that part of this process is trying to become clearer in your idea/material/internal world, to refine and find it’s essence but at the same time to expand and extend and break the patterns which you’ve set up. 

 I feel the time slipping away, and it seems like we’ve just started. 

Rohanna’s clip from the 29th August.
Duration: 39 seconds

Do less feel more sounds like a slogan.

What do I do when I come across something I don’t know/ find challenging? How do I behave? Get frustrated, implode, come to meet the idea, watch, find a new door. Probably all of these at different times.

I found I could notice more today then yesterday. I think it takes me a while to click into a new class, new information and ideas. Each time we have a new teacher in the morning I feel slightly resistant. By the end of the sessions with them I would be happy to carry on that way.

I have come to an impasse with my original idea. I think I need to leave it for a while, try something new and then come back to it.

Some thoughts that have struck me in the last few days:

 Susanna suggesting you could layer the idea with details which don’t take away from the orignial idea: sound, smell, envirmonment etc. 

 Sarah saying that although something can evolve, it wouldn’t have come to that place without the original idea,

 provoking the thought that if you have purple it has still come from red and blue which are still present.

 The improvisation was useful to free the original idea to find a greater palette of colours and textures. 

 How it will feed back into the original, to be continued………

Today was fantastic, listening to Jonathan talk and feeling like so much of what he said applies to what we’re doing. Its great to feel as though what we’re doing can relate to a wider context.

Today felt like a new beginning with the portrait. Yesterday I struggled to find any physical manifestation for the idea that was quite clear in my head but became feeble and self concious in the transition from thought to movement. Something was freed today. I think it was using some of the suggestions from Deb and Sarah about trying to find the extreme ends of the scale and giving yourself parameters in terms of time and trying to give a situation and context around the event.

It was really useful to ask Jennifer to help me try a few things out, and break myself out of my own world.

As it was our last class with Gill, I thought I’d mention some highlights.  Generally they’ve been really useful to help provide a source and tool box of ideas for the afternoon’s activities.  One particular highlight for me was the class on legs. It was wonderful to realise how much possibilty there is, and how I usually think of the legs as being what enables the body and arms to move.  I had some really nice, surprising moments of finding pathways in and out of the floor without any effort, finding myself somewhere I hadn’t expected to be.  I like her expression of something being a gift.  The lesson on legs was a gift. 
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