Because once definitely wasn’t enough. Twice even isn’t enough, but I doubt they’d let me take any of the Seagram murals home and they for-sure wouldn’t fit on my walls if I did!
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Finally got to see the Rothko exhibition, which I loved but Simone seemed a little underwhelmed by it. Then we went and had a look at the Cildo Mereiles, which she loved but I wasn’t that taken with it. Some nice bits, but not really my sort of thing. Had a stunning peppermint tea in the members’ room – I think I need to get a tea-strainer so I can make peppermint tea with proper loose-leaf peppermint leaves. SO much nicer than the bagged stuff.
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Faber-Castell Albrecht Durers. Mmmm. My treat to myself for getting my 2005 Australian tax done at last
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… to see “The Crack”, Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo, which was remarkably beautiful and exciting for being basically a crack in a cement floor. I loved the journey of travelling along its length, exploring the offshoot cracks and seeing it expand and contract. I loved that there were so many people there obviously enjoying it. I loved that for a piece about such serious topics as alienation and separation, it was so accessible to the public and that people were walking along it, straddling it, putting their feet in it and taking photographs of toys and each other interacting with it (I saw a little girl photographing her teddy bear, suspended by his arms over one of the larger parts and a young couple who had brought a Lego cowboy along to photograph at the edge of the abyss). Shame they’re filling it in on Monday, but I do like that you’ll always be able to see it – it’ll always be there, it can’t ever fully be taken away. Very, very cool. I took a ton of photos too, but as they’re all on film, it’s going to take a while for them to get to the shop and be processed.
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I’ve started reading a book called The encyclopaedia of watercolour landscape techniques. There’s some really interesting stuff in there and I’ve already started playing with wet-in-wet and spattering techniques.
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I know it looks like I’ve been slacking off big-time, but the truth is I’ve been being manically creative left, right and centre – drawing, walking, listening to music (my new composer/group for the month is Radiohead) and reading books. Not to mention accidentally getting myself employed again, which has been a big contributor to the silence.
So, a bit of a summary:
See? Not slack at all… really!
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I had to work out some sort of collage to cover the back of the Stonehenge page which bled through quite badly, and particularly where the surface of the paper had torn. And I had to unwrap my new Moleskines, so decided to use the insert which shows all the different types of notebooks and the wraps from my new softcover plain (the wrap is green) and tiny volant (white with multicoloured stripes) books and make a collage from these. A tribute, if you will, to the cult of Moleskine 
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Yeah, well, it was neither exciting nor particularly well executed (so won’t be posting it) but I was bored while waiting for djelibeybi to finish his phone call in Staples and the label intrigued me, saying as it did "BOX CERTIFICATE THIS DOUBLE WALL" which I took to be mangled English until I realised that in spite of the gap beneath these words, they actually joined on to the next bit of text which read "box meets all construction requirements of applicable freight classification". Anyway, I drew something at any rate.
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In the end, after messing about with watercolour over the failed stencil, I decided to have a bash at drawing Stonehenge over the top of it all. I confess that I did use the underlying stencil to guide me with heights and things in the places where it had worked best, but there’s a lot more detail in the drawing, and a few of the stones on the right had essentially been completely wiped out due to the paper coming apart when I removed the stencil. I think it’s a measure of how my confidence in my drawing has grown that I didn’t even think of drawing in pencil – I went straight in there with the pen. Woohoo!
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I decided to see how watercolour would go over the top of the messed-up Stonehenge stencil and the answer is "surprisingly well". I really didn’t expect the watercolour to do anything but pool nastily over the acrylic paint, but it came out with some very interesting effects. I’m thinking I may attempt a drawing from one of the Stonehenge photos over the top of it all now.
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