I went to a workshop run by Sue from Marmaladecat. It was all about printmaking and collaging into a concertina work. I had enjoyed the book-making/paper-folding at the low res, and I had taught concertina sketchbooks on the beach, which, along with collage and printmaking, seemed an ideal way to spend an afternoon. I, of course as is fitting with my social media art practice, made a reel for Sue and the Gallery.
I took my concertina back to my studio and worked on it for another three days, using the paint/materials techniques I have been developing for the upcoming climate conversation workshops I will run in December and January. I loved making this, and in a difficult week of geo-political nonsense and complex festival meetings, it was both productive for my art practice and an excellent brain scrub.
They were both good reels. The set sail one was arguably more aesthetically pleasing, but the workshop reel followed the algorithm-preferred face-first image and template/music choice, so it got more visibility.
A close-up selection, the pink fish are made from the work I sliced up from the material experiments I discussed in a previous blog: https://mxdp.blog/2024/10/07/tides-of-love-workshops-and-bursary-from-the-arts-council-of-wales/
Like my animation, Set Sail (2024) tells a tale, one that you think you understand and the other is an underlying journey which neither I, the artist, nor you, the viewer, may ever truly understand (I am the Big Fat fish with the moustache if you wondered!)
Mx.D.P 
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