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ANTICIPATING THE JOURNEY
NOTES FROM SKETCHBOOKS
' The point of desire is desire itself,
the essential pleasure in expectation is expectation.'
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 sense that the months
of preparation to go on this two week journey, the trip itself,
and then upon returning , the reflection and the making...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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'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.
sketch
book collage
Antarctica.
The fifth largest continent.Only 2 % of its land is visible.
The small part I am to visit is in the eastern Pacific Ocean
sector. The small tail on top left hand of image above.
Fractured perspex
ice thoughts
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