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To Greener Pastures- my entry for Searle Award
Whether the reason for migrating is survival, the search for economic opportunities or desire for change, migration is an enriching experience, both for migrants and for the societies they bridge.
Despite the hardships, the painful separations and the risks involved there is the underlying belief that there is a place where life can be better.
I wanted to express that hope which drives a small minority of people to migrate, through animal characterisation and the use of symbols. Our successful migrant finds herself surrounded by opportunities missing from her homeland.
Her risk taking and open-mindedness reward her., while others may not have been so lucky in this endeavour.
Profiting from opportunity she feeds from the new abundant source, she produces plenty of milk, from which the locals drink and which moistens the earth producing a flower which does not grow anywhere else, to represent the unforeseen positive outcomes that come to those societies open to migrants.
She has not forgotten her origin, and looks to the herd, where she is greeted with mixed emotions. Through the experience of migrants, new opportunities arise in their homeland, which is what I wanted to say by giving the calf wings.
Crit!
This was during Sequential Image Module. Now on the second year we have a more rounded table approach to group presentations. Back in the old room it did have more of a sitting duck feel to it.
Searle Award 2012
And the judges verdict was:
2021: Looking back at this post I can see I was a much more fragile artist. I was not as used to rejection and it was important to develop the thick skin to overcome it. And to get over myself and not to take it personally!
My work did not fit with what the curators wanted to say on the subject. I clearly didn't see it that way but I do nw.
Sometimes there is no method, only Madness
Tidying up my ideas for the new book. It's based on the experience of migration and it will be a double book (one next to each other sharing covers but separated down the middle).
If making a coherent sequence on a single book wasn't hard enough, this one is really pushing my brain in all ways.
COLOUR! The right and wrong order
I've had these for ages. And as anything that involves more than three colours I obsessively have to tidy them into "the correct" sequence when I'm putting them away. This is still unsatisfactory.
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