I've had this blog a while and kept struggling with how to use it really, Having been of the generation where me and my pals all had blogs from abou the age of 13, I know too well about extremely BORING blog content and was worried this is what I would end up with, but I really wanted a space to contextualise my piece. So I realised - Just have reflections on collections, this way I can look back at it myself without being bored to death. I HAVE DESIGNED MY BOOOK TOOO!!! ok heres the reflection:
Collection numbero duex
Both of my collections strangely enough have been in Bradford, accidentally as I found them both through LVAF.
So collection 2 was part of HATCH, a rather strange Live Art event at the Bradford Playhouse. It was quite good in that the bubbly American lady kept announcing me and telling people to come along and tell me a tale, though I felt a bit like the organisers didn’t really have a clue what I was doing. And 3 or 4 people asked me when I would be making my giant paper banner. However the response was Brilliant!! Lots of people were really interested to read the pages I had already stitched together, and a few were giggling reading them out aloud, I had 2 or 3 people come sit next to me and tell me their stories, with one bloke welling up as he regaled me with tales about his first love and the debate that had followed surrounding whether his unrequited love for a woman was actually love… apparently everyone he has ever know had been telling him for years he had never been in love… whilst the pain in his eyes told me he truly believed he had been. Another gent who was with his wife but had came over to me as he was intrigued by the piece, told me a tale of how his first love was married to someone else and they were all correspondents in the war, his stories fascinated me and he even went into details about how he was an alcoholic and was devastated at the time but understood later that she had to stay with her husband. Apparently she was quite famous and when she died it was across all of the news, I could see the pain in his eyes also.
What I noticed after today’s collection is that I came away with a very warm and fuzzy feeling, I love the strangeness of it all and I especially love how conversations started all around the room. Several people were really interested to find out when the book will be ready and if it will be on sale, so next time I will have to take a ‘write your email on here’ page so I can let people know when the book is done.
Some observations – One lady was laughing her head off, and said ‘it’s brilliant, I don’t know how you thought it up but its absolutely brilliant’. She then asked me before writing her own ‘can it be absolutely anything?’ I wish I knew what hers was.
A few girls, a little younger then me were crowded around reading them for ages, giggling and reading a few out loud. I was trying to interact with them but hitting a brick wall. None communication with me. They were talking about how it was a really lovely project, then when I tried to interject with how it was a beautiful way of spending my time they didn’t acknowledge I was there, I wonder if it was because I am the collector of their tales, so by not communicating with me they were keeping me out of their heads or something… just a thought.
I have decided to change a few things around with the website now, I originally had a PDF download of the tales typed up but now I m going to re jig and remove this, and replace it with a ‘tell me something about your first love’ instruction set… I got some through the post the other day. And why not. Plus by not having them on the site you can just see them in the books. Which Cally is going to show me how to publish. Next Step… Find some time to get stitching, scanning, printing and a making! ☺
Ciou!
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