Fail to prepare, prepare to Fail

The exhibition deadline is approaching, at a high and uncontrollable speed. I feel like I am nowhere near ready but at the same time I'm more than prepared. I know what I want, I know how to do it... It's just a matter of getting into gear.

I have always worked this way, I work better under pressure and the nearer the deadline - the harder I work. I've tried to be one of those people who get organised, setting personal deadlines and have an assignment ready a week before the hand-in day, but that's just not me. In my own personal experiences, I've found the work I've produced a few days before the deadline gives me the better grades. And the work I produce weeks in advance somehow doesn't give me the best grades. I don't know why? Maybe if we give ourselves too much time to do something, we always want to change it and improve but sometimes, some things are better left alone.

So, in terms of the project... I'll get myself into gear this week. I'm feeling positive.

Departing...

No more lies, no more wars
Once we were together forever
But not anymore
You see, you had it all
I gave you my everything
Everything and more
Somehow, somewhere
I lost the ability to believe
That me and you would always be
You took away
My hope
My strength
My sanity

Glasgow National Review of Live Art

A couple of weeks ago I went up to Glasgow with a few friends to watch a few live art performances. The previous year had excellent reviews, it was a huge festival and I was convinced this year could be the same (as I didn't manage to get there last year). However the performances were somewhat...interesting? I was trying hard to figure what the concept of the performances were. Performed by European artists I did appreciate the style would be very much different to how the British perform. But it was only then I realised it is vital that there must be a concept in every piece of art. It could be performance, installation, painting or even interactive art. On any scale of artistic variation, the key to a good piece of work is a well structured and clear concept. Although that does not mean the piece has to be literal or obvious, but as long as it is definitive, I guess the art is successful.

In my own work I have stuck to the concept which is: departure. Exploring it in as many different ways as possible, through literature, photography and definitions. Although sometimes my ideas can expand and sometimes I can create red-herrings but in the end, it will always come back to being 'departure'. To always bear in mind the concept, I create work with my ideas and generate materials as much as possible and take a step back and think about what the concept is of the material I have generated, if it links then it stays and if I doesn't then it goes.

Simple key to keep the concept.

EXCELLENT NEWS!

Crewe Train Station Mangers have agreed to let me use an old room for the project!

Not entirely sure what the project will entail, maybe some videos, a performance piece, a selection of photographs?

All I know now is I have lots to be getting on with!

Cringe. It looks like I'm trying to copy It's Blitz! But I was just removing my nail polish and BOOM, it was departure.

It's Blitz!