A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Celebrations
When Ingrid and I returned to the flat after nerve wracking Viva Voces, our assistants produced champagne to toast our achievement.
Next day, during a group meeting, before the Private View, we toasted ourselves with champagne. What we had achieved was beginning to sink in.
The paper cups had to do because the caterers hadn't arrived with the glasses.
We went walk-about, visiting each installation while each artist talked about her work.
It was a moving and emotional time - a release.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
'Seeing' Things
Douglas-fir Cloth
An idea i explored with this work is seeing as a gendered issue and a cultural issue.
I placed small elements from each tree under its cloth to lure the male inside the structure, knowing he focuses on details from long distance. The female eye is rewarded with the details of these elements once she is inside the structure.
The western viewer has had it ingrained in them to not touch art and to accept it's right place within a frame, behind glass, behind a barrier, or across a space. This work challenges the viewer to go inside the work for a more sensory experience, enticed into the structure by the familiarity of having been between sheets for hours most days of their lives.
Friday, June 22, 2012
"Home" is Installed
On the nearby wall is the book of posts from my blog documenting the process I went through to produce this work. My artist statement and business cards are beside it.
I laid out all of my research on the floor below this wall. Tomorrow the assessment panel will go through it all in the morning.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Hanging Happens
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