night buses, painting and things

I heard in a lecture the other day about this Liam Gillick piece that involved vodka and glitter all over the floor of the gallery. The thing I found really cool about this was that the glitter would stick to people wandering around the installation, and, as glitter does, stay stuck to them for days. So this element of the installation constantly left the gallery with different people, spreading the art piece to wherever they went - infiltrating their everyday!!!

I find this a useful concept as I often think that one of the limitations of my work is that, even when it does work and invite people to question stuff ect, at the end of the day they just go home and wack the telly on and forget. With Gillicks piece, people would be reminded in the most subtle way of the piece a few days later by just the teeniest little bit of glitter still stuck to them.

I find the same problem with demos. Its all really exciting and everyone starts feeling really empowered but then (probably after being kettled for a good few hours grrrr) you just go home again, feeling tired and a bit pooped. and obviously no-one pays any remote attention to the demo, such is "democracy"! So at the next big demo, i think we should all take loads of glitter. Then the glitter can act as a physical manifestation of the empowerment and exchange of ideas that takes place at such events. I'm not saying it would make a massive difference, but it wouldn't hurt to try...

Whilst having my morning wee the other day i noticed this teeensy piece of loo paper on the floor. it looks like a tiny swan in the middle of a big lake. it made my morning wee much more exciting.

I seriously have got to start drawing more!

So i'm going to take this old A to Z out when im exploring. And just draw :) Hopefully free-up my ideas a bit.

I'm completely fascinated by travelling at night, especially on buses - double decker, sitting at the front. I like the way the lights outside mingle with the reflection and create whole new dimensions all moving in different directions. These are just some (slightly crap) sketchbook pages about it. I'm hoping the more I paint and draw and get my head round how best to represent the different dimensions the better I'll get and hopefully I'll make a few little paintings as well as some more exciting stuff I'm pondering..

I'm thinking about making a stop motion animation using masking tape on the window next time im in a car and theres lots of cars going past on the other side of the motor way. traffic sex.

thinking about stencilled stop motion on big bus windows.
Influenced by the John Stezaker exhibition on at Whitechappel gallery at the moment, I want to explore ways of using simply cut paper to create the feeling of windows/ alternative dimensions in various contexts.

bloody. love. the night bus.