my Branksome 'studio' becomes 'bedroom 3' again.
Evie, our daughter, is currently studying in Ghent. She is two months into an Erasmus exchange and has an 'Extended Drawing' brief to complete before Friday. Here in our current home in Branksome, we have two weeks left to pack up and leave. Another incumbent will move into 'our' Vicarage in a few months time. There is an expectation, quite reasonably, to leave the space as one would like to find it. I'm doing just that. The studio space needs a good deal of work on it before I can leave it and as I set about it, I am aware that I'm literally wiping out traces of my activity there. I'll continue until there is no sign of my having worked there.
Without having any awareness of how Evie is faring, I discover, during a chat on Skype, that she is taking as her starting point marks left after work has been removed in a vacated studio space. She is isolating traces and building a library of the scuffed and chance-marked paper that she is leaving around the room.
I'm struck by the synchronicity.
Incidentally, I've already wiped out the traces of her presence on the walls of her own bedroom (of 13 years) at Branksome. Paint work becomes changed by years of turning a light on and off...events are 'commemorated' through marks.
below; a few of Evie's starting points see more on evieinghent
Without having any awareness of how Evie is faring, I discover, during a chat on Skype, that she is taking as her starting point marks left after work has been removed in a vacated studio space. She is isolating traces and building a library of the scuffed and chance-marked paper that she is leaving around the room.
I'm struck by the synchronicity.
Incidentally, I've already wiped out the traces of her presence on the walls of her own bedroom (of 13 years) at Branksome. Paint work becomes changed by years of turning a light on and off...events are 'commemorated' through marks.
below; a few of Evie's starting points see more on evieinghent
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