The roll of paper full of marks made at the Lucid Art Foundation has arrived via post and is sitting in our attic room. I will take it to the studio and unroll it sometime. As to whether I will show it in some way, I don’t know. It was my response to a specific place — the Lucid Art Foundation, a specific space — the beautiful light-filled studio looking out onto the landscape, and in particular a specific artist — Gordon Onslow Ford. At a particular time.
There were calligraphies in the space. The long roll of paper was filled, over 12 days, with marks. Sometimes it was a river, with eddies, bubbles and splashes. Sometimes there were primitive forms of life. Something happened — an outpouring. And then it was done. The space empty again for the next artist.
I know I have been changed by being there and making this work. And subsequent work will be informed by this experience, this learning.
