LAST WEEK

Centre for Drawing, Trinity Buoy Wharf, running, trains, trips, cold, tutorials, lighting workshops... all things that filled last week, all things that made it fly very fast and that allowed productive thoughts, moments (not all the time) and actions. Monday, tuesday, Trinity. The beggining of the week was for solving problems, for looking at our visuals and making decisions concerning the Interim show. The result was very pleasing, thanks to Lizzy, who could be there on the following days!!! There was a lot there, and it is true that we need to improve aour work with layers, make it more subtle, give more space to the audience, or take the opposite way out and fill them up, give them no space, not even to breath, so that among so much they need to carve, to work in order to see something. Or, just walk away. But the second option is not what we seek. The Interim show was a good opportunity for trying out ideas, for taking thoughts out of papers and air, an opportunity for transforming these conversations, so many discussions that me and Lizzy have been having, into work. Into images and sounds. Into meaning that means for others as well as for ourselves. Now we know that we need to dry it a little. We need to cut information and rearrange the layers, recreate the layers. And finally, ofcourse, bring the characters into the story.

Wednesday, Friday, Centre for Drawing. As I arrived in the Centre for Drawing on Tuesday evening Rich described to me their work, what had been going on for the past days, for the days I was at Trinity. He described to me something of the process, something of the play he was developing, and the mother character, the character I was to work on the next days. This character, which I will not describe here for it belongs to his project, then became mine for interpreting, for developing, for representing through text in the centre for drawing space. The work was productive. I brought texts which for me spoke of this character. They were myths, songs and fragments. Along with these I had some of Rich's play in transparency for the overhead projector. It was somewhat strange to develop the work I have been researching with a character so different from what me and Lizzy look for in our performance. It was strange to try and portray through text a character which is through the words of the play so dry, so real and unreal, so far from the poetry I have been looking into working. But it was a good experience to work around this "strangeness".

Ofcourse, the amount of time I had ahead of me for working, made me repetitive, it made my work go through those layers I have trouble with, and add, and add more, and still more, till my mother character was flooded with too many images and many of which could be cut down. It was not completly successful if considered as a final work. My text experiment did not yet become a character, it did not manage to point out a person, or to hint her attributes, but it brought to light the things that could work and the things that might be missing. In that sense it was very successful. I know now what I need to get rid of, what I need to collect, and from this I can start building the following character. The character that will exist in my performance with Lizzy. It was great to have Rich's and Jordan's feedbacks, as it is Rich's play and as I had my tutorial in the space. Rich brought some really good input also due to his theatre background.

As for the objects, I did work with them. I found it hard to work with projection over objects due to their attributes. But it was good to try and it is something I look into trying further. There is many things one has to think when using objects, reflexibility, size, shape, and so on. But the idea of interacting the imateriality of the projection with the materiality of the object should evolve into an interesting set of visuals and meanings.