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Fishtrap workshop

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.

Version one of the painted rocks wrapped in wire and string thing

Rockheads or Stonefaces.

I have a 100 rocks that are the characters.

Not exactly sure where they are leading me

I am working on a version of a cray-pot or fish-trap for them to live in

Each one increasingly develops similarities to my neighbors. When I was at the post office yesterday I felt that the people in the line waiting to be served were imitating these rocks.

Life imitates art or something to that effect.

This project is really time consuming and I will be glad to go back to ordinary painting again.

you cant walk into the same room twice

the local mullet. With my dad and nephew