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"Like the bubbles of pink prosecco, the face of Marilyn Monroe on the left of this silkscreen explodes on the tongue, fruity and effervescent. Maybe a sugar cube in the prosecco has given it too sweet a flavour because there is something cloying about it but at the same time its flavour is sharp and tangy. On the right, the images have a dense flavour, like the scrapings from a roasting pan or burnt butter. At first they seem bitter and charred but then the rich caramelised flavour comes through and you want to go back for another taste.”

This painting by Fahrelnissa Zeid (whose work will be exhibited at Tate Modern in June) reminds me of the bustling chaos of Indian railway stations. The colours and smells of the station platform. Kiosks selling newspapers and trashy novels for the journey. An excuse to drink steaming, sweet tea in disposable earthenware tumblers, accompanied by deliciously unhealthy fried pakoras and samosas. The soothing rhythm of train over track, long journeys counted out in mealtimes. Packages unpacked to reveal layers of parathas, flat breads smothered in clarified butter and eaten with pungent pickles or mouth puckering chutneys. Assorted vegetables, potatoes and peas, cauliflower perhaps, spices and fragrances signalling the cuisine of particular regions. Food shared by families, often with strangers. A taste of home to carry with you on your travels.

Through layering photographs, footage of the buildings materials, sound, the film plays with how a recording of a social event can be spatial and reflects a relationship to materials and inhabiting busy physical spaces (which seems oddly rare now). It captures a collective and conversational approach to research, through diagram drawing by some of the student programmers. A film about educational arts practice developing my arts-research practice, it’s been a long journey for me over the past year. I am still editing the final parts of a text that will go along side it. And then I will be able to share the project at some point fully. 

Here are some various attempts at mapping to categorise ‘social’ encounters in the space. To create comparisons of the designed spatial layouts used by Associate programmes in Tate Exchange across the different programmes that I visited from Nov 2019 - March 2020. Identifying structures, placed objects and furniture and deciphering how they affect the visitors movement, specific social encounters, exchanges and relations, between artists, students and members of the public. 

Sketching the movement added to the cognition as common characteristics that human and non-human can share. I am not only talking about animals but objects created by humans. Our actual planetary ecological crises challenge us to generate new modes of theory, practice, and thinking that illuminate this invisible relationship with the non-human world. #tateexchange #contemporaryart #collageart #tapeart #tapeartist #tapeartsociety #tapeartwork #modernart #paperart #jgartadvisory #worldbestart #susaninglettgallery #artmywall #myaet #mycreativelife #mycreation #artinvestor #artseller #artist #originalart #originalartwork #artconsultant #artcollective #artcollectors #artcollect #artcollecting #artcollectorworld #newyorkart #newyorkartist (at Newport, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3DBbLgIGx/?igshid=1leo0ov3329q5

A project for a floating installation: it will be a sculpture catching and refeclting the natural light. More to come soon. #hardedger #abstracted #tateexchange #independentartist #emergingartist #archdaily #sculptureart #installationart #lightart #worldbestart #contemporaryartist #abstractart #artadvisors #gallery #pacegallery #davidzwirnergallery #bricewolkovitzgallery #abstractsonfire #todayartreport #delphianopencall #perrotin #thetaxcollection #contemporarycurator #wip #workinprogress #lifeofanartist #creativeart #artprojects #artsanity #newyorkartist (at Newport, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAymvN_gsp9/?igshid=rprzhoqq1vn2

@tateliverpool @tate #tateexchange #patricia_mackinnonday #thecallingsheds #exhibition Panel discussion at 2pm today with the four (just amazing) female shepherds whose work is celebrated in this year long investigation. Exhibition will run to 8th December. @glenkeenfarm #longgarthfarm #llyndyisaffarm #scalpsiefarm @cumbria @snowdoniagram #isleofbute #contemporaryart #film #inspirationalwomen #femaleshepherds #lornakettle #soprano @artscouncilengland (at Tate Liverpool) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5NbmB8FsgI/?igshid=2fsakfrhe48s