I'm loving the MA course, and am finding more and more ways of investigating both my practice and the practices of my contemporaries. I'm still unsure of what exactly it is that I do, or make, but continue to feel compelled to do it nonetheless. In a bid to try to understand who, or what I am, I have been asked to answer some crucial questions, which I hope will provide me with an insight into my methodology. I will probably revisit these questions as the weeks progress, so reserve the right to change my answers ... a little, or maybe a lot!
IN THE BEGINNING ... (or "How do I generate and evaluate new ideas?)
I've been repeatedly renewing a book from the library lately - Found treasures: Hermann Jünger and the Art of Jewelry (Thames & Hudson, 2001).
Hidden (well, not really hidden, but given a page of its own, with a virtual trumpet attached) is a quote from Pippi Longstocking ...
"A turnupstuffer." "What's that?" asked Tommy. "Somebody who finds the stuff that turns up if only you look, of course. What else would it be?" said Pippi. "The whole world is filled with things that are just waiting for someone to come along and find them, and that's just what a turnupstuffer does."
Astrid Lindgren,
'Pippi Longstocking'
So, it's official, my practice does have a name, and at the moment I am mostly a turnupstuffer. For my methodology starts with collecting ... broken fragments of life, unable to fulfil their original function, and no longer with a recognisable form. Usually man-made, small-scale, and with an unexpected twinkle, I am compelled to stoop to rescue them from the gutter.
I've been repeatedly renewing a book from the library lately - Found treasures: Hermann Jünger and the Art of Jewelry (Thames & Hudson, 2001).
"A turnupstuffer." "What's that?" asked Tommy. "Somebody who finds the stuff that turns up if only you look, of course. What else would it be?" said Pippi. "The whole world is filled with things that are just waiting for someone to come along and find them, and that's just what a turnupstuffer does."
Astrid Lindgren,
'Pippi Longstocking'
So, it's official, my practice does have a name, and at the moment I am mostly a turnupstuffer. For my methodology starts with collecting ... broken fragments of life, unable to fulfil their original function, and no longer with a recognisable form. Usually man-made, small-scale, and with an unexpected twinkle, I am compelled to stoop to rescue them from the gutter.
Turned up stuff, 2011
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