week 5
By Josephine on Sunday 23 November, 2008 | 1 Response |
We spent part of this week working on crossing the space, in tasks which drew us away from the more stationary/frontal/inward space of the portraits.
There were a couple of afternoons where I don’t think anyone was quite sure what they were doing: was the most important thing to travel; to imagine a moving light; or to create a tension in space between us and the moving light?
It became clearer when the task became to find three very distinctive ‘terrains’ to move through. What was interesting was how we all approached the task. Everyone seemed to realise that they needed to find a “way in”, a way of narrowing the task for themselves, and everyone’s approach was slightly different. There was also a real sense for me that even at times of confusion or doubt, everyone seemed to trust that eventually they would work something out, that the task was worth trying and would be in some way beneficial.
Of course it was. Eventually we found terrains to travel though and when we returned to our portraits they were enriched and somehow more ‘open’.
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Sunday 23 November, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I had a very similar experience than Josephine.I was initially relieved by the fact that I had to move through space since is what I love doing the most and gradually became very confused about how and why. The reason for me was that I was trying to use movement which didn’t quite a have a clear reason to travel in space. The territory/terrain idea that Deborah and Henry come up with was a great mind opener for all of us :we were all able to see space again and put our mind and body into it. Through the long afternoon of doubt I believe I prepared for the terrain work: I don’t think I would have found it without searching for it in that way simply because I wouldn’t have made sense of the idea of what a terrain is and what physical emotional state is necessary to travel through it…..And it is true when we got back to the portrait it seem to have travelled with us as well and gained so much more clarity in its restricted space.