A small selection of creative work
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PerformanceRehearsal pictures for a devised piece creating infinite fractals by using projection and a live film in a feedback loop...Then playing with bodies and shapes in the space. Rehearsal and performance pictures for a site-specific devised piece Our final performance for my MA year. An immersive interactive piece, taking the audience into a physical sensory world of confused identity based on alice and the looking glass. |
Films
Film is a really good way to look at rehearsals from the outside, in the devising process it's important to look at what we've come up with to see if it is coherent etc . This also to documents the work and can sometimes make a new piece of work in itself.
Experimenting with feedback loop on the back wall of the studio... As a living advert for one of our shows, we stood in frames giving out leaflets...
I've also been using film to observe my world for a while now... Mostly for myself but maybe one day I'll begin editing... |
Writing
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Grown-ups Searching the soulless box for a product-placing sound bite of it’ll be alright how long has it been since you felt the grate of skin agains tar-mac picking out little black gravely things from your palms and your shins Adults avoid risk Like kids avoid bed But I’d purposefully miss The top step To feel what’s left To scrape the bottom Of heart barrel the rotten Fruit that’s old passion, and love Of anything left of a life But surprisingly hardy As never fading scars From reckless exuberant past We’ll do it again But a different way now With eyes tightly closed shut snoring world out Arms spread vulnerability exposed left behind the spluttered shout “It cant always be fun” Its time to be grown ups and show them how it’s done |
Paynothingforayear Deluxe new apartments overlooking the massive brown tip, Brightly coloured bits of everything poking out of the landscaping But why should that concern you? When we can watch tv on the loo We are coming all the time closer to the mess we create To the unfinished business of choices we make And will we continue to find blaa to distract us To occupy the mind or will we mine deeper not into reserves hidden in earth but the soul and search for the courage to confront and create. Imagine fear undone Freedom of an unimaginable sum And I smile because I know this pain isn’t “just the way it is”. We smile through all this that clouds our hearts and we ask anyway with the prospect of the world how it could be. I am happy because this is a problem I can see an answer to, rather than the full-stop no-hope ‘reality’ they'd have me believe. |
Have a word
Work out a way to take this forward. Scribble an abnormal honesty. It's all there a big bag of tricks ready to be called asked..maybe only a little thought is needed. Settle this storm and a nice new colour sweeps in with the vibrations of a life favourite song. Let it in or left behind.
Doing this for, what for who? This thirst is quenchable. Strengthen up, no holes no scary abyss but just a different type of atom formation. Of stuff isnt it. No more prickly worries that sedate into inaction.
Do because you can. Because we're grateful.
Ask because it might be better than this