"Try this:
Get scissors and coloured markers and a large sheet of paper.
Make random colourings all over the paper.
Then cut it up with the scissors.
What do you see?
What could you make out of it?
Make something new."
I am currently spending the night in a hotel in the city where I will be catching my plane from to India in the morning. Alas I had not large paper, scissors or coloured markers ... So I got inventive and improvised.
My kit:
Notebook paper, one black pen, liquid eyeliner, lip pencil, eyebrow pencil, eyeshadow and lip gloss.
This was my random markings and doodlings:
This is what I "cut" up and recreated:
... Personally I think I "invented" some kind of floor plan design for a landscape gardener. No? Okay then ... it's definitely worthy of the Tate Modern.
SARK: "When I was 8, I invented a new place to hide during hide and go seek. It was between the window and the windowshade. I flattened there like a small blond moth and held my breath".
Following on from yesterday with the idea of being able to invent my own reality, I am experimenting especially so with this notion tonight. This trip will be the longest time Josie and I have ever spent apart since we got together. The longest being just one night - this will be twelve. Together we have this thing that when we're apart we invent places to meet in our dreams. When we're feeling sad and lonely without each other it provides immense comfort to share the idea that we can meet in a mutual invented place when we're asleep. Each time we think up somewhere different from beach huts, to mountain lodges, hot springs, boats, childhood play dens, beautiful moonlit gardens. We pick a location then send a few messages back and forth deciding on details of the visuals, senses, smells, sounds. It gets pretty in depth...
I guess it doesn't have to be a shared idea - if you're feeling lonely you can invent your own place to go and decide who you want to be there. It's very soothing.
SARK:"I feel free to experiment with new ideas..."
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