This series of experimental sketchbooks about ‘Everyday Edges’ aims to complement my location derive projects through providing a ‘safe creative fun space’ for:
- a safe space for freeing up, having fun and brainstorming ideas the ‘help me think’
- as a place to bring together sketches, photographs and notes for specific thematic or location project work
- as a place to experiment with materials and processes, rapid and frantic sketching that can then be rubbed out or gone over as a record over time, sploshing ink and paint and seeing how they interact, collage that I can then draw and paint over.
- ranting, raving and following interesting ideas, even if they lead nowhere
- experimenting with visual effects of different drawing, painting and collage media and styles
- helping me think through all the multiple moods, thoughts and influences bombarding me everyday to motivate or prevent me from changing everyday habits
- helping me to get a better sense of how I think ‘new normal’ should look like and start to make the necessary personal changes
- clarify my subjective ‘voice’ that influences and informs my documentary work on location.
I work with many different formats from very small folded pieces to A1 size sheets bound with a Bulldog clip between cardboard. With different types of paper, and also altered books.
