Listed here is a diary describing how some of the time during the residency was spent. Also listed are the weeks chosen distractions, music, caffeine, spending money, sleeping in, and gardening. These distractions were eliminated from my week individually to study their power and influence on my work and personality. Distractions are endless, I studied these distractions and forced confrontation with them. This helped me define some of the personal distractions I live with and gave me enough understanding about myself to consistently ask through the residency experience, 'what am I being distracted from?' This question was key in helping me search toward what I eventually felt was the true reason for my process driven conditioning. I started working on it near the end of the residency. A piece of work titled Eternity, which I have not touched since, but am constantly reminded of and want to return to. DIARY SEPTEMBER WEEK 1 NO MUSIC 8 - Program introduction with all students, shaking hands, eating from platters. 9 - Created strange shaped vessel on the wheel, two smaller simple shapes. 12 - Sickness (a regular cold), set up studio space, swept, etched into the two small ceramic shapes. 13 - Set up website catalog, started two large scale drawings and a couple pieces for my Karsh series. 14 - Worked on large drawings some more, stitched together a Canadian flag, painted an Agatha Christie novel (Curtain - Poirot's Last Case). No music in the studio this week. 15 - Made some new work in the ceramic studio, two new Karsh collages and added to the large drawings. Ate a carrot, banana, two muffins, two cookies. Things getting more messy. 16 - Warped some clay, created Book of Names collage, updated site, putzed about. Ate a bunch of carrots, two purple plums, two apples, a stuffed bun, and a cookie. 17/18 - Weekend WEEK 2 NO CAFFEINE 19 - New thrown clay shapes in the works, added to drawings (more mountains and stuff). 20 - Added to large drawings, watercoloured J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and a box of matches from the Congo. Made some messy shapes out of clay. 21 - Traveling up island to photograph a small town today. 22 - Cut out strange silluettes of animals, created three classic coffee mugs, trimmed, added to two big drawings (almost there), made two new Karsh collages, biked home. 23 - Tied a vase in a knot, trimmed a few pieces, added to drawings, made more animal cut outs. 24/25 - Weekend WEEK 3 NO SPENDING MONEY 26 - Loaded some pieces into the kiln, trimmed and etched into some clay, collaged a bit and got soaked in the rain. 27 - Had my youngest sister in the studio to start the My Families Urns ceramic project, made a pair of clay candle holders and a strange mortar and pestle, made a couple collages, and added to the big drawing. 28 - Rach came by the studio, unloaded the bisque, worked on a couple of shapes, worked on some collages and the big drawing. Cut out more rochester creatures. 29 - Made two more collages, added to my big drawing, cut out some more animals and trimmed a bowl. 30 - Glazed some clay pieces, glued a collage, finished the big drawing! Took some photo's.
OCTOBER 1/2 - Weekend WEEK 4 NO SLEEPING IN 3 - Started writing artist talk for thursday presentation at the AGGV, and glazed some more clay pieces. 4 - More writing, image documenting, cataloging artworks 5 - Biked around photographing some workshops/buisnesses in Victoria 6 - Finished writing artist talk, cleaned up some artwork documentation, presented talk at the gallery. 7 - Glazed and loaded some new ceramic pieces into the kiln 8/9/10 - Weekend WEEK 5 NO GARDENING 11 - Checked out what happened to the pieces in the kiln...some good, some bad, some very messy, got set up for ETERNITY three panel drawing. Picked up developed film. 12 - Painted a match book and a dictionary of modern art, met my brother downtown to sketch out a design for his urn (felt bad forgot it was his birthday). 13 - Met with my sister to talk about My Families Urns project, took photo's of my dads garden sculptures, painted a dictionary of abstract painting, sewed together some paper, put some pieces into the bisque kiln, organized the studio. 14 - Re-created Rodin's the thinker (in clay) riding on top on a beastly giraffe or some animal. 15/16 - Weekend WEEK 6 FREE WEEK 17 - Started working on some kind of a space age duck like figure, getting some more clay stuff made to draw on, wrote out three short poems, and moved in a stereo system with some Bill Frisel albums. 18 - Wandered around, set up paper for next big pieces, trimmed some clay, wrote some poems, a general day of low key creativity and ponderings. THE END (no more day to day, to much happening)
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