24/06/2009 by James.

I’ve been exploring how to share my work and as usual have documented my experiments…some of these images may in fact form a final piece, or they may lead to me developing new work with new ways of getting my work more widely viewed.

I am interested in how my work can act as a kind of sign or shrine, a public offering of where and who I am, and a place to interconnect with others, a kind of crossroads or a marker of where I’ve been, and a place for you to pause along your own path. This way it’s not a precious one way thing, it’s an offered experience in neutral territory.

In looking at how to share my work in ways that aren’t limited to a gallery space, I’m not rejecting that option, but hoping to just widen the ways in which the individual side of my practice can feed directly into the environments and communities in which I live and work… adding 2D pieces to community noticeboards, strapping objects to lamp-posts, leaving adapted books in shops or libraries…. leaving work to be taken, defaced or decayed.

I am still absorbed by the idea of pieces that I’ve made being worn as well, maintaining a direct bodily connection with the work, and exploring the role of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary practices as a means of blurring perceptual boundaries and encouraging our acceptance of more holistic realities.

Its the process of creating and reflecting, exploring and learning that excites and feeds me; the chance of making unexpected connections with others through new work and the new ways of sharing that work.

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24/06/2009 by James.

I didn’t manage to spot any Bustards this week when I went up on Salisbury Plain for some peace and quiet, although by the number of camouflaged birdwatchers loitering behind the bushes I was probably within metres of them - maybe next time when its back to being just me in the wide open space with the butterflies, skylarks and roe deer.

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