This week at college

Not much going on ... no seminar on Tuesday; the screenprint workshop was unexpectedly shut on Wednesday, and I was coughing too much to go anywhere on Thursday.

In the Wednesday afternoon slot, Graham Rawle (of "Lost Consonants" fame) gave a most interesting lecture about his work. The current project is a book about a man who finds playing cards, and starts to make connections between them, feeling they are telling him he has a mission to save Princess Diana. Graham gave us some combinations of cards, so we could make our own connections -

(Sorry about the blurry picture.) He ended with this thought: If you don't want to get out of bed in the morning and start work immediately, you might be doing the wrong project.

In the get-together on Wednesday before the lecture, I brought out my screenprint project

and got some interesting feed back, which has me thinking about moving on from presenting it as "a book" into a more sculptural forms, via cutting slits (yikes! cutting!) in the larger pieces to "weave in" the smaller ones, using them as double-sided joins to make a circular piece; or a concertina trail along the floor; or rolled

or folded pieces added to flat backings

or even cut up into tiles - that will get me looking at tiles in the Underground ...