Seeing and Moving
Seeing and Moving
Two videos: recording of Heartwork class 2 and 'See with the Body Eye' talk
This week is a between essays week and I am off to east Anglia to house sit for a friend while she is a writer in residence abroad. I will be leaving behind the brine of the Solent (pictured above from last week) for the wilder waves of the North Sea. Meanwhile I shall be the writer in (her) residence and will take the opportunity, away from my craft materials and the beach at the end of the road, to finish all the edits on my next book. Some of the week will also probably be spent cat herding, or rather, chasing up artists who have agreed to be in the book but who haven’t answered the emails requesting images and a bio…
On my return home there will be a flurry of small illustrations to complete, then I can finally think about something else for a week or two. I find rewarding the whole process of planning, researching, writing and illustrating my books, but for the next one, which I will start mid next year, I am not going to schedule a busy autumn’s work at the same time. Thank you to all my paying subscribers here, you are making it possible for me to make my books and write more here, sharing what I really care about, without burning out.
This week there’s two videos, the first one is for everyone. It’s a recording of a conversation I had with my friend and pigment colleague Lucy Mayes of London Pigment for Pigments Revealed International. Talks are held each month and some great scientists, artists and researchers have spoken there. I had previously talked about my journey into pigments a few years ago when PRI launched, so this time I suggested that we ranged wider about craft, the embodied life and the need for reconnection and culture to heal the alienating societies we have somehow created. I think it could be of interest to those of you who are also ‘unmachining’ your lives.
The split screen arrangement and large original file size was sadly out of my hands, so I have made a lower-res version so that it is streamable here. Once you’ve seen me gesticulate unZoomishly for a couple of minutes, you may prefer to just listen along to it as a podcast, ideally while preserving food, say, or mending something…
The second video is the recording of Saturday’s second Heartwork session for paid subscribers to Uncivil Savant. Thanks to all those who came along and also to those who stayed afterwards to ask questions and share stories. I will be away in the States in October, so no class then, but I am hoping the next session will be Saturday 9th November.
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Warm wishes from the turning of the season.
The Heartwork video is below this line.