Talk with Bill, Thursday, 17.01.2013
I talked with Bill about the tutorial with Gillian yesterday; the base line is to move on and take the activity “Stitching” on a journey.
It means leaving the church behind for the time being.
I might want to film in some of the small country churches; the spiritual environment, the quiet and the time factor,
particularly here in the South-West of Cornwall echoes with search of a point- place-moment-sequence meets in the stillness that is interwoven with a place and its sounds.
It means going outside, on beaches, rocks, moors. Gillian suggested going out for a day on a journey, for example Dartmoor, spend time stitching and later on writing about the experience.
Also it became very clear, that the video and stills act as documentation and are not the work itself.
The Work is the activity, the act of being in a place while finding the place inside, through a moving activity, the Stitching.
The Stitching becomes a “real” time documentation, tangible memory of the time spend. Each stitch holds the memory of a moment, a breath.
So much comes together for me in this work;
⇒⇒ my search and longing for beauty (reference Satish Kumar on Beauty),
⇒⇒ my love for the handmade activity, ⇒⇒ my search in using material which are kind to the environment. (Here hemp and British Wool)
⇒⇒ working with music and sound
In talking with Bill it became clearer what I am looking for:
> in the visuals > Images in the landscape, working in the landscape
> in the sound > ambient sound of the filming
> under laying with sound from close up recordings of stitching, needle through the fabric, breathing, moving of cloth.
Also I became aware that I could only think of one “mode” at a time, which is interesting in itself.
Gillian suggests “Contrast” work as in a setting of stitching at Piccadilly Circus.
First I rejected her idea, as something I was not looking for; in the conversation with Bill,
I thought, it would be interesting to explore the idea, with the freedom to abandon it, if it doesn’t feel right.
At the moment I am concentrating on the “Calm” mode.
Working with sound and music is an integral part, as music is such a powerful tool for expression of moods and feeling and plays an important part in my life.
One Stitch at Time 