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ANTICIPATING THE JOURNEY
NOTES FROM SKETCHBOOKS
'Finally it came
to me, effortlessly as these things seem to come ...suddenly
there is a moment when a thought in your head makes itself
known as if it has always been there, as if you have been
thinking it forever...the thought was there. ANTARCTICA.'
Skating to Antarctica
by Jenny Diski.
How about working from the
place of desire, from the anticipation, expectation even.
I am embarking on an interior
as well as a physical journey.
I have a clear sense that the
preparation, the trip itself, work upon returning...are all
of equal importance.
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In
anticipation, disparate things have brought themselves to
my attention:
the
fragility of winter flowering cherry blossom on wet concrete,
the scored surface of a white van being prepared for
re-spraying (below),
a
shattered windscreen arranged as a map of Antarctica (below),
the
frilled edge of a large rusting metal sheet discarded
on shingle in Dungeness (below).
Dungeness found object.
the frilled, corroded edge. The scarred surface.
The broken shape.
Glacial movement.
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Antarctica.
The fifth largest continent.Only 2 % of its land is visible
rock.
The small part I am to visit is in the eastern Pacific Ocean
sector. The small tail on top left hand of image below.
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sketch
book collage- my printer churned
out mysterious symbols one day. I set about tearing the pages
up but stopped myself when I began to see maps of Antarcica
in the pieces. Antarctica turned out to be the blank emptiness
in the centre.Of course, Antarctica shrinks and expands year
by year as part of the freeze -thaw cycle like lungs filling
and deflating.
Fractured perspex
ice thoughts- along a roadside.
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