Saturday, June 26, 2010
I think they are on to me
The project of recreating a the small community I am among in effigies of painted rocks is developing some momentum. I find myself more and more reminded of individuals by the rocks.
This afternoon a local wandered by and asked what I was doing. He began to look at the pile of eyes staring at him and agreed that one I held up looked like someone he knew.
It was late in the brief afternoon when the sunlight is low and sallow.
Lately I have begun to decompose the features into individual eyes, nose, ears and mouths.
They will act as pieces in a board game.
Perhaps made available in a little canvas bag that can have instruction on the outside.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
fishtrap 1
I found the plastic mesh down by the sea this morning. I think it's better than chicken wire but not as good as using steam bent ti-tree and metal hoops like a proper old cray-pot.
The experience of living in a small and fairly remote town is a possible explanation for this but Ifind my self humming that line from a Cruel Sea song"...my head is like a room full of people all trying to get out of the door at the same time."
Peer through and see the faces looking out at you.
In this version the individual faces tumble together inside the sealed trap. Like rolling of dice each flick of your wrist puts a different outcome in the mix. Faces that were on top now peer out from below the others.
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