I've slightly lost track of the weeks...I guess yesterday was Week 10...which frankly seems fairly unbelievable! First Up: Cake File! Ingrid produced three very fine cakes this week...Ginger, Honey & Almond was up first...delicious. Then Lemon and finally Chocolate Marble - both equally fine. This cake malarky is getting out of hand...but they are very nice.
This week we started the first of two weeks of fifteen minute seminar presentations by each of us. These are intended to act as an introduction to the first drafts of our first essay that also had to be handed in yesterday. The unlucky eight of us who had to get it all finished and to hand for the day included myself. Then again at least next week we simply have to sit back and watch the other half of the cohort perform.
Inevitably some of us have fairly reasonably resolved texts, others are still finding their way...nothing I saw on the day couldn't be reasonably easily turned into something pretty decent with a little application...handing in the first draft now is good - we get them back ahead of Christmas so have time after that (some time into January) to react to what's said and make the inevitable changes. I thought that, just once or twice, some slightly harsh things were said about the state of play given that, for some colleagues, this is probably the first time they have tackled anything like this in their lives!
I had a bit of fun with my comparative essay between Richard Misrach's early night desert pictures and Edgar Martins' 'Accidental Theorist' project...finding myself in my kitchen at six am I remembered being struck by the close visual similarity between one or two of Mark Rothko's late paintings and Edgar Martins pictures...having a few cacti to hand (they sit on the windowsill) I made a couple Misrach/Martins by way of Rothko...so here they are.
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