Thanks, Doug
I'm pretty pleased with them.
It could be better, but I'm not quite sure how yet! We're working on it.
I'm very lucky to be working with Guy.
We tend to spark ideas off -- no that's not it. We do do that; but it's
more a completion. When we worked together on Friday...
We're very (superficially) organised, or try to be. And item 1 was to
agree the contents of the exhibition with considerable finality, you know?
And that enabled us to then move on; leaving some issues till the set up
day; and -- this was / is my point -- we then showed each other the things
we had which were unresolved as ideas.
When it got my turn, I was half way through my brief expositon, and Guy
cut in and said _what I like about this material is... and so... if I were
you..._ and he had anticipated my problem and given me a solution in one
so next time or another time I shall be able to present him with a
maquette at a level of completion for him to react against; and on we'll
roll... And 2 out of the other 3 things I offered him he took on, over, to
go to the next stage, his making; but what he proposed was, in both cases,
not what I had proposed or anticipated... he was off in another and good
direction to which I readily agreed
At Bristol, we're showing some stuff that never went beyond *that stage
from last year; but from we are where we are now we can look back and say
_well that has value in itself_ even if we do not offer it as major work.
Major work? Qu'est-ce que c'est?
I know you only asked me the way to the bus station; but I think that's
where _it_ is coming from, a tension, but something approaching
unconditional acceptance
Sounds overblown perhaps. Does to me. But I'll stand by it
L
On Mon, September 12, 2011 16:01, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> I didn't get to these till today, Lawrence, thanks to Stephen's note.
> What he said.
>
>
> And the playing off of that 'dirty concrete' against the photos
> especially neat.
>
> Doug
> On 2011-09-10, at 3:55 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
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>
>> Thanks, Lawrence. These look great w/a wonderful tactile sense about
>> their "bodies." For me, a clear connection to the textures of sound
>> poetry.
>>
>> Stephen V
>>
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> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
>
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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