I put my punk cassette jacket (work in progress) up in the cathedral. Got the train down there, borrowed a mannequin, arranged the cassettes like droppings underneath it... It was the only 'conceptual' 'installation' piece amongst many pictures, some masks, painted cups, candles, stained glass and other oddments. The pictures range from very fine watercolours to garish and heavily textured oils with a wide range in between. I admire the former but lean more towards the latter as I'm keen on the texture and the more 'painterly' approach. I must stretch a canvas and try a textured picture, I'm scared of working with paint though!
The jacket is still not finished, it needs lapels and a collar. I'd like to do the badges out of inlay covers and studs out of the cases, then it might be finished.
I popped in at the talk on Cezanne's use of colour, it might have been interesting but I had to take my son with me and he wouldn't let me concentrate and I had to leave. oh well. I remember a little bit about how blue and orange, opposites, don't look good together and often have a neutral colour like a dark brown or mixed black between them. I also was duly amazed at how, when shown a picture in greyscale, he had used almost the same tones throughout. The vibrancy is all in the colour, not tone. I noted also the bit about how he used the reflected colour as shading, managing to create a reddish green and other seemingly impossible colours.
The Illuminate festival went ahead, we sang... processing around with masks on. I held an apple (it is mentioned in the song) and I think it was a good look as often asymmetric figures are more interesting. Rob had his drum, Ian a pumpkin lantern, me an apple, Cat her recorder and I don't think Samantha had a prop. Luckily I was able to keep my phone and purse on me as a grey pocket wasn't out of keeping with our black costumes. I should have made the cloaks though, Cat's mother didn't do a very good job, i turned mine into an apron. There were loads of 'issues' I hadn't been clear about the times which made childcare difficult. The band didn't stick to their times and we'd be told not to clash with them which meant we were scurrying around the edge and it felt as though we were hiding from the public. Rob, who was leading kept going much too fast in my humble opininon - i thought that it would have much more sonorous import if we'd kept to a slow pace. Cat's more concerned with whether we're in tune or not and was not keen on working with the situation as it presented itself, she had been given her times and she wanted to stick to them! But without her rigidity and organisation it wouldn't have happened at all. So that's it for my performances this year. Need to find some money from somewhere this december...
I was really impressed by people at the York Road halloween street party, the houses that had volunteered to be trick or treat locations went to town with setting up scenarios. I particularly liked the 'interview with a vampire' house and the old lady who got Ianto to drink bright blue 'poison' after fishing sweets out of a large bowl of cold spagetti. The eyeball full of jelly was good too! It's good to see people being so creative and so pro-active. Some of the kids were really scared.
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