Sophie Calle exhibition

The work of Sophie Calle is fascinating- random adventures and curiosity satisfied to the extreme- so much to read, more time needed.
Beautifully displayed in a clean orderly and sophisticated way.
It gives me more of an understanding of how important an appropriate dispaly is to the work, as without it this work coould be rendered self absorbed meaningless and difficult to understand. It is far from that and seeemed to touch deeply with a shared empathy the women viewing the work.
I also noted how interesting how the gallery and its calm interior contrasts so strongly with the chaos and noise of Whitechapel road ouside the building.

Volunteering at the Bridge

Today my first day helping in adult education class. It is run by a friend Christine. She is running it as a creative journal class with part of the class for drawing or making stuff to put in the journal. Today she used a chapter from the book Zen and the art of drawiing, which was shutting your eyes for one minute and then drawing only looking at the object not at the paper. Using first of all pencil then charcoal or pastel. After a break we had them cutting stuff from magazines and sticking them in with the drawings they'd done earlier.
I really enjoyed the class. There were a few people with special needs and also some people with mental health probs. So there was an interesting and diverse section of people of various abilities.

second year fda

This is the first page of my blog, Ive no Idea what to say but this is just to test out that it works and cn be accessed as required.