Over the past week or so I have been away but have also taken the opportunity to talk to friends, peers and artistic colleagues about my ideas for the "Arab Spring" project. This has been very useful and has firmed up my strategy behind the project. I was explaining what I was doing to one friend and said that it would be a pictorial representation of a journey - this harks back to the psychogeography of my last project - how one comes to a realisation of self via the journey. I also said that I was thinking of producing something like a scroll - this references the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road which I saw at the Barber Institute a couple of years ago. Also referring to the manuscripts that I saw in the British Library (Illuminated Manuscripts) and the British Museum as part of the Islamic gallery visit we undertook as well as the Hajj - journey to the heart of Islam. Interestingly enough there was an interesting review in The Week on this exhibition which I've temporarily mislaid but it gave me the idea of making the 'scroll journey' flow out of an 'ancient ruin' made of the bricks that I've been working on.
I've rejected the funerary statue/Jaume Plensa/clay heads from the queen's tomb - wife of Alexander I c.480BC + my own images of manikins modelling headscarves in Tripoli. I feel more drawn to the 'book' idea and it has more resonances with my previous work. I am going to work on the 'heads' project after I've completed my degree.
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