What have you got?
A family who are supporting me.
A bed- very handy.
God- heard He’s handy too.
A working laptop! I saved up for this!!
Music. Need I say more?
Food.
Water!
I have got paints, oil and acrylic, although quickly running out of white. A sad camera phone, which I think works in my favour when taking quick pictures, but not so well for documenting painting progress. I don’t mind it catches light really nice sometimes. It’s a bit temperamental like its owner.
Recently ordered some books by Vandana Shiva and Wendell Berry
What have you done so far?
1) Two large oil paintings
a) Red Plastic Chair
b) Yellow Beach
2) Watercolour paintings
a) 4 sketches in Studio
b) 4 at home as of 8/05/2020
3) Gardening
a) Planting
b) Composting
c) Saving seed
d) Weeding?
4) Website/ Blog is updated!
I have written quite a bit personally and for the blog. I took the Lockdown as a time to research extensively and read a whole lot. I gardened for its multipurpose function- therapy, exercise and art. I have spoken with Mon Jansen about my practice and shared interests. Joined permaculture online communities as well as spoke a bit with our art collective Potluck. Although I have been hermit-ting for the most part due to assessment these days.
I have been searching for spiritual guidance as well to keep me sane and grounded.
We want you to take photos/draw / make lists.
Studio environment
I have a large workspace, a sort of basement garage turned to a bedroom/ studio.
An easel, however, no frames/ pre-made canvases to scribble on.
So the easel hangs some tote bags at the moment.
Large floor plan to share my Pilates mat and paintings. I like spreading my papers everywhere around me. The room is tiled so spillage is not an issue.
Your workspace
Don’t have a desk. Will work on that. I work on the dining table, the sofa, or my bed usually.
Tools and materials (practical/ conceptual)
1) Paint brushes, new, old and borrowed.
2) Paint acrylic, oil, watercolour accidentally and gouache
3) Canvas (small)
4) Watercolour paper
5) Oil sticks
6) Colour pencils etc
7) Clay
8) I am in desperate need of some more organic soil.
9) A tiny bit of gesso
List everything you have done that could be considered an action or a doing. This can include anything from making, experiments, looking, writing, walking … whatever constitutes 'your studio practice'.
1) composting,
2) planting,
3) redesigning part of a bed
4) saving seed
5) Making a hot compost
6) Propagating supermarket offcut vegetables
7) Killing plants accidently
8) Stepping on saplings accidently
9) Sporadic praying
10) Researching and reading
11) The deconstructionists podcast
12) Vandana Shiva – Monoculture of the mind
- Decolonizing the Mind
- Eco-feminism
- Saving Seed videos
- Monsanto Related talks
13) Wendell Berry- articles, book chapters, and documentary,
- Look and See by Terrence Mallick
- Agriculture philosophy and ethics
14) Arundhati Roy
- God of Small things
- Capitalism YouTube videos
- India related politics
- The myth of Gandhi
15) Kaitlyn Curtice
- Podcast
- YouTube videos
- Blog
- Decolonizing Christianity
16) Permaculture NZ Group (online club)
17) Zero Waste NZ (online club)
18) Potluck (art collective)
19) Watercolour paintings at Hugo’s home.
20) Damaris Zehner Blog
- On autonomy
- Permaculture as philosophy
21) Raqs media collective – Pacific Parables
22) One man, One Cow, One planet Doco
23) Decolonizing permaculture
24) Cooking
25) Cleaning
- Folding clothes
- Keeping on top of the mess
- Misc. tidying, vacuuming, dishes, cleaning bathrooms
26) Pilates.
27) Going for walks and awkwardly smiling while staying 2 meters away from incoming foot traffic.
28) Growing my hair
29) Learning new uses for “weeds”.
30) Looking at Adam Lee’s Art!!!!!
31) Planning to message Simon M
32) Learning how to hot compost
33) Throwing away pumpkin to find it growing in my compost
34) Changing linen
35) Staring at a screen, hating it. I hate it. I hate this. SO much.
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