Reflection on my emerging practice. What is happening in your creative work? My process at the moment feels contemplative as I am engaging in a never-ending cycle of text. One question leads to another document. I start to feel grounded with ideas of action based on my critiques, and slow down the textual learning into a space for real action.
Where does the material want to go? I want to build more instruments to install in public space, starting with our class wind-chimes. Materials tell me stories and trigger ideas of how to make them sound in space.
How is it evolving over time? First imagined as installing many instruments around London, I felt it could be more transformative to have other people engaged in the making of these instruments. I want to making process to also be a bridge for connection and learning from one another.
What shape is it taking? The sounding of materials that represent personal stories, histories of place and non-human agency is where I want to go. It expresses my desire for more engagement with the physical worlds around us, and also to expand my art practice beyond my own ideas in the digital space of my DAW.
Might you want to change direction? As I aim to expand into fascillitation and practice primarily lead by political and social intentions, perhaps I will feel like I lost the sense of play and creativity in my work. Perhaps I’ll return to solely making music on my laptop and enjoy building my skills with that practice.
Why not? I feel pretty determined that the wind-chimes installation meets a lot of my desires about the change I believe I can be part of. I have had positive feedback so far and have enjoyed working with the materials used to make the chimes.