India at Chelsea

Working with a carpenter was really interesting in terms of the practical application of my idea. It is a very useful skill to learn in order to go into production design.

I tried to re-edit my London and Partners video but totally lost faith in what it was I was trying to achieve. However, I did start playing around with stock footage and ended up creating an interesting mash-up between Eastern and Western cultures. I am much happier with this outcome than my last. https://vimeo.com/218749125

So that the poems exist as a written record, there is a zine that people can take away from the instillation. To continue the raw, naive style of graffiti, the zine is heavily inspired by punk craft and contains collages specific to each poem inside.

Inspiration for poetry zine.

Managed to squeeze in a visit to the Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain before it ended. Really inspiring work. I loved the photograph collages and the kind of punk approach to Cubism. His colour palette is of course beautiful and up-lifting too. 

The walkman that was going to be attached to the cubicle to listen to the poems from is broken. It doesn’t seem to be able to play the CD. I will find an alternative in time for the show, but for the hand-in I will have to just hand in a CD with my zine and hope they can listen somehow as there is no time before hand-in. 

When handing over pens to other people you have to accept a lack of control. There are a few things I would change if I were in control, perhaps better spacing so some of the poems could breath more and slightly less sexually graphic doodles, but the brilliance of toilet graffiti is that people can do whatever they want so it is fitting that I shouldn’t dictate how people write the poems or what they want to draw.

A soundcloud album containing my poems in audio form. I may try to re-record the tracks for the exhibition as the rooms I recorded in were not ideal and some tinny echoes can be heard in some of the tracks. I would also like to spend more time refining the tracks to all be the same volume and tone.

Checking out toilet fixtures! 

Started collaging for images in the Verbal Diarrhoea zine. 

This campaign came out shortly after my London and Partners project. It’s EPIC! The kind of film that makes me want to be a director. I know that my footage, (let alone my skill), is not in a place where I can achieve that, but I’m going to try and use this campaign as inspiration as I re-edit the footage to try and amp up the energy. 

After showing a tutor the collection as it stands we’ve agreed that there are two poems that don’t match the personal, ‘gritty’ vibe of the others. I’m going to cut them out of the collection and work on creating more personal pieces. I wrote another one last night that I feel is one of my strongest, so hopefully they are getting better and better. We’re still working on the idea for a name. ‘Verbal Diarrhoea’ is a maybe. It’s had positive feedback but there’s definitely a feeling that maybe ‘diarrhoea’ is not the best word to have associated with your work! I’m going to see if I can generate other ideas. 

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.      They may not mean to, but they do.   They fill you with the faults they had    And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn    By fools in old-style hats and coats,   Who half the time were soppy-stern    And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man.    It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can,    And don’t have any kids yourself.

‘If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.’

Mothers of America                                   let your kids go to the movies!   get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to   it's true that fresh air is good for the body                                                                 but what about the soul   that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images

Donne photograph sourced from: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=philip+larkin&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDlermrL3TAhXIKsAKHYzKBrMQ_AUIBygC&biw=1280&bih=568#tbm=isch&q=john+donne&imgrc=jLvrt5CQeeePeM: 

All are good food for thought. Right now I need to work on cubicle mood boards and toilet references to know what it is I want to work towards aesthetically and continue to edit and write poetry.