{"id":101,"date":"2020-11-15T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2021-02-20T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:50:45","slug":"aub-foundation-art-design-stage-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/?page_id=101","title":{"rendered":"AUB – Foundation Art & Design – Stage One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Locale\u2019  – AUB Foundation Media project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Lockdown in the spring my garden became my world. It felt very small and confined.  I love to travel, and was unable to do so with government travel restrictions in place and keeping my family\u2019s safety at heart. I spent a lot of time outside in my garden but longed to travel further, and I began to appreciate small details I hadn\u2019t really noticed before. I saw shapes and colours that reminded me of places I have visited abroad. My garden became my \u201cempire\u201d …  I began to daydream about the places I have travelled to and longed to revisit. I realised that NOT travelling should also be appreciated as much as travelling. I developed a \u201cmicro\/macro\u201d insight into my garden surroundings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a Swedish saying \u201cBorta bra men hemma b\u00e4st\u201d = away is good but home is better. It\u2019s their version of “Home Sweet Home\u201d.  I feel very fortunate to have a garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made some samples, testing materials, made a lot of notes and\u00a0mind-mapped\u00a0ideas, researched books, \u00a0poems, and texts, explored\u00a0Pinterest, looked at other collage artists\u00a0– particularly\u00a0Robert Rauschenberg\u2019s<\/strong> work, Hannah Hoch,\u00a0Annegret\u00a0Soltau<\/strong>. Could I mix it up further with use of oil pastels and acrylics?\u00a0I have a selection of ephemera and\u00a0found objects…\u00a0\u00a0(I\u2019m becoming a hoarder ) which are calling to me ….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My final piece was a collage, but I have several more unfinished experiments with photos and poems which have become a \u201cbody of work\u201d, I guess? I plan to create a handmade book (concertina format) to bring it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n