let it snow

went to macclesfield forest to take pics. winter wonderland . gorgeous.

networking

got talking last night(once again out eating and drinking, seems to be a theme?) to a pal with a restaurant who has started a second business advising other businesses on the social networking media world.
he insisted i have to have at least one social networking site for my business that i can use to update clients and continually remind i am there!
i see his point, and although i am extremely happy physically networking, the techno thing does my ead in!
but i must embrace this part of life which presents itself as such a challenge to me.
i would be very pleased with my self if i did!

snow

I LOVE THE SNOW
a wonderland of fleeting magic  transient(must look up what that really means!) landscapes
lets enjoy real life a bit more less playstation more playing in the snow

take more pics in snow
look at footprints in snow
temporary evidence
police/forensic prints
wildlife prints
cast a snow print?

more snow paintings                       my local area Bollington

site

building sites
full of "diamond geezers"! i love builders, their straight forwardness, their work ethic, their traditions and unspoken rules.
looked at frank Auerbach

nancy sinatra "these boots"
paul simon"diamonds on the soles of her shoes
want to look at footprints, forensics, and
SNOW! hes been! footprints in the snow, transient, fleeting, temporary.
will go now and take some pics..........

one egg. one child. 62 days. 2010

this piece is a part of a journey considering shelter. To me the journey began with, in my view, the most perfect shelter, the egg. I started developing my thoughts and ideas sitting with my hens, breaking eggs through my fingers, cooking, vacuum packing an egg, then i began to build a house made from egg as an inverted response to shelter, to let the sheltered become the shelter.
As i was busy cooking eggs, glueing them to the mdf house, throwing away the shells i began to consider how many hungry children those 62 eggs would feed? and what a waste it all is really, for what?
for our artistic entertainment? for my degree? to amuse? titillate? what a waste.
And what do we waste every day in  the so-called "developed world" how many children would all that destroyed food keep alive? but how inaccessible is that food to them anyway? so i wanted to demonstrate the sense of unattainability, inaccessibility of that life sustaining commodity to children in poorer countries.
I found the crate at the tip and thought it perfect!
the crate looks set to depart but it is locked, with the key just out of reach.

title?

ONE EGG. ONE CHILD. SIXTY TWO DAYS.                     2010

mdf, eggs, glue.

sasha beaumont







OUT OF REACH.             2010

mdf, eggs, glue.

sasha beaumont

egg house production

production went on for a long time! 62 eggs what a waste which led me down a bit of a different pathway of thought anyway... The Egg House!

titles...................

OUT OF REACH

ONE EGG. ONE CHILD. 62 DAYS.

AN EGG A DAY KEEPS DEATH AWAY

GO TO FIGHT ON AN EGG

GO TO WAR ON AN EGG

STAYIN ALIVE                EGGCELLENT!

THE EGGLOO

HEN HOUSE

FREEZE DRYING?

THE KILLING HOUSE

saoirse higgins

also talked about;

the film "blue" by Derek Jarman

and Eduardo Kac

Saoirse Higgins

had guest speaker today,very techno, didnt really float my boat but was very impressed by her tenacity and attention to detail in all her work.
making stuff right not just make do.



she also bought to my attention the "plinth" issue!
ive been debating for days now how to show my work next week, the egg house

i want to make the piece inaccessible so thought of putting it on an 8 foot high plinth but she made me realise how boring and unadventurous they are so.. more thinking to be done
im pleased with the concept of the egg house itself just need to work on showing it.

whitworth lectures

was very impressed and inspired and interested in David Batchelor

various theories and research into colour esp urban colour
wrote "Chromophobia"

he referred to with interest; Richard Ryman

also Charles Blanc an art critic with a special interest in colour(piece in my desk top)

Anish Kapoor

bit of a plan!

1- fried egg house, making then taking to uni to photograph properly
2- interactive egg separating- as many participants as poss to be photographed separating eggs with their hands(letting the white run thro their fingers, chef styly) then writing one word on the shell to covey their feeling
3- hard boiled egg peeling and eating maybe with some dipping stuff to make the eggsperience(boom boom) more interesting, being photo'd and again writing one word feeling on the shell after
4_ swapping round those two to see if the continuation of feeling changes as they have eaten the egg already

bit of a study in change of feeling according to the process

what is the SIGNIFICANCE of the audience participation?

---to focus solely on the egg?
---to consider(or maybe not?) the destruction of the shelter?
---to consider mans strength over nature and our oftentimes disregard for it?
---to consider our frivoloud attitude to things so brilliant, the food we throw away, the disregard for an animal having been killed? did we kill an animal or break an egg? did that egg deserve to become a chick? we should respect all that nature provides enough to appreciate it all and make sure the animals, chicks, eggs whatever havnt been slaughtered in vain without a second thought
maybe all kids should be taken to a slaughter house to appreciate and understand the food chain and cycle??

bloody hell-- rant rant rant
bye!

egg shelter thoughts

human egg emerging from the ovary! blimey!

human egg

interactive with viewer---eating eggs -hard boiled-peeling
                                      considering specialness/cleverness of nature
                                      cracking shell-separating egg through fingers-instructions
                                      haribo eggs inside shell to crack open-choc filled eggs-cooked egg filled eggs

house/shelter/coop made from fried eggs
egg mountain

sculpture from hard boiled/chopped/fried
eating eggs peeling self/hard boiled with dipping pots



SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERACTION?
considering nature
questioning fragility
questioning strength



an egg is an external womb  we break that open with little thought
what am i trying to say?---- eggs is brilliant-maybe leave it at that?
we think were so clever what about nature?what about the egg?



eggs as shelter    in micro=embreyonic cells    in macro=egg production mass scale-chicken farms
egg=an oval-rugby ball-training? a container for yolk and white
parameters-------------
playdo                                                 weakness                                                        solid
plastic                                                 strength                                                            hollow
human                                                  age                                                                 edible
shell                                                     colour                                                            broken
stone                                                   smell                                                               whole
clay                                                     weight                                                             manmade
paper                                                  shade                                                               natural
chocolate                                            size
glass


random options?
shell   age   edible
glass   size   hollow
stone   colour   whole
paper   strength  manmade
human   smell   edible
chocolate   weakness   natural
clay   weight   edible
playdo   size   hollow
plastic   age   broken

plastic egg containing real egg to see through
real shell filled with choc or cooked egg
what does a human egg look like?

                                   
                                                  developing chick

eggs

i want to continue to look at eggs, a personal project starting, eggs are brilliant!
i am thinking of ways to to use eggs in a piee of work that entices or forces the viewer to interact directly with the egg, in order for them to consider their brilliantness!

maybe a sculpture of cooked eggs, a tasting exercise with hard boiled eggs ready to peel, an interactive piece where the viewer learns to separate eggs with their hands( feels lovely!)
im not sure yet about the hatching eggcersise?! not the right time to get one of my hens broody and maybe not the time to get hold of fertilised eggs for an incubator?

shelter

had interesting day yesterday with student self critiquing the first stage of the shelter project, think a good idea in principle, with a bit of tweaking, would like to see a bit more in depth critisism.
am starting to ponder the follow on to this of a personal project- i am interested in looking at eggs in more depth and have a somewhat silly notion of maybe trying to hatch some chicks? as a sort of installation/living sculpture type thing?!
ive hatched some before and found it a profoundly, enchanting experience
maybe i am taking on too much?

liverpool biennial

well, I did enjoy lots of this, i dont think quite as much as the last one which was my first
although advised to not spend too long at the john moores painting prize, i did and LOVED IT!
far better than the previous ones i have seen, more diverse, interesting
i think i came away from it not so much having been"touched" by the actual works, but more exciting techniques, materials, applications
i went home buzzed up by myself and a resolve to push myself further with experimentation
the other exhibitions were rather a mixed bunch for me
i loved "gloria, a study for an opera 2" by Hrafnhildur Arnardottir at the Contemparory arts centre
visually stunning, flowing with the natural changing light coming in through the colours

lighting up a very manmade material brilliant!the shapes and the form the hair took on, creeping up the pillars

wasnt too keen on the basement multiple videos happening, endless oriental guys and gals sat still on mopeds or waving string about their heads for hours just doesn't get me going although i did get very engrossed in the video being projected onto the floor, depicting hundreds of office workers in a grid form moving tables about like some mad, living human rubix cube. squabbling over their perceived "spaces" like little ants in their little world where nothing is as important as having YOUR OWN TABLE.

I also enjoyed at the A foundation Joe Clark's video(for someone who doesn't like video?)of the vultures, reminded me somewhat of our mad consumerist society that panics to rush and grab and gorge on anything it finds until it is all devoured and they all leave without a backward glance

shelter

Although i have happily entered into a collaborative to look at the shelter idea, I have quite taken an unassertive role, offering my phsyical abilities, creating 2d work to highlight the actual work when displayed, as i just cant get my head aruond their proposals and the ethos behind their ideas, that being that we all wear masks when interacting with society as a form of shelter, as i dont believe i do!
i am still drawn to the idea of the egg.
having hens myself i am in awe every single day when they produce me an egg!
i have hatched my own chicks and watched the 21 day cycle of those cells changing into chicks, all encased in the most brilliant shelter, the shell(is that maybe where the word itself has mutated from, i wonder?)