It’s the new year and I have been itching to do this project for weeks. I wanted to use coloured paper to make a timelapse of the tide coming in and out of an island. Here’s my favourite result:
There’s something strange and sci-fi about it. Something 1960 about it. It reminds me of the album by Joe Meek ‘I Hear A New World’.
Playing the album whilst watching the clip it makes more sense.
I want to paint whilst listening to this album.
There’s something about the mystical, edge of the world feeling about St Agnes that fits with this music and the quality of the video.
I’m not quite sure how this translates back into painting but I’m okay with that.
It reminds me of Barbara Hepworth’s work. I am reading her book of writings and interviews at the moment and it is spell binding. She was an incredible writer, artist and thinker.
How have I found myself here?! Listening to 1960s music and creating a feeling from the last century? This is a new aesthetic in my work.
Where to next?
I feel the urge to go big. I want to prime a big black canvas. And buy some bigger stretchers.
Listening to Glob Waterfall and watching the video I think of the rock book I read recently. Rocks being compressed, squeezed, changed. Slow time. Slooow time. Water and weight. There’s something mythological about it.
It feels incredible to be making something with video. Embracing this side of me.
The end of the song reminds me of snorkling in the kelp forests. I so wish I had those videos that Tom recorded on his camera when I was in Scilly!!
All the life that is around the island.
And now the next song Magnetic Field makes me think of the sun going down, setting over the ocean. Wow this is expansive practice – music, video, painting.
I need to paint whilst listening to this album.
I also want to play around with curating artworks in my space. Thinking about the room as a map of the place. E.g. putting the edge of the world paintings in the corner of the room. Away, distance from everything else.
Weirdness and ugliness. And the beauty in that. There is something here to keep tapping into.
Georgina Harris 