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71 lines
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HTML
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<title>The bundle</title>
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Toast<br>
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This story is from my friend and peer, the artist Clara J:son Borg<br><br>
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I am at the Glasgow school of art on exchange and I am standing on the concrete floor in one of the school’s project spaces. I am holding a stack of dry, already toasted toast bread. We have been asked to bring materials that we are working with at the moment, it will be used in today’s workshop that is about non-visual inspiration.2 The other students come with plaster and ropes and classical sculptural material. I feel a bit stupid with my toast bread stack, but I guess that is what you do when you new to an environment.; you try to figure it out by modifying the material that is plentiful around you. I have gone for white toast bread.<br><br>
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The workshop starts with the task to stick our hands down in a black velvet bag and feel an object in it. We then get asked to return to our materials and respond with it to what we felt in the bag. I am staring at the stack of toast bread. I have just slid my fingers over an object that was about 3 cm in diameter, made out of plastic, had 0,5 cm spikes on one side and an undefined back or front. I find this extremely hard. At my home university I have been thought to look. Look at images, look at colours, look at structures, look at materials. A somatic experience with an object in a bag is not normally how I start my creations. Inside me my thoughts and ideas have both frozen and running fast as never before. I stare at the stack of toast and when the time for the response is running out something tells me that I need to tie a black string around the stack of bread. I am not really sure why.<br><br>
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Next inspiration is a smell. We sniff different fragrances on paper slips just like in a perfume shop. I chose to work with a strong, heavy, warmish fragrant. It seems to be an artificial version of something natural that doesn’t do the natural smell justice. I stare at my stack of bread again and I start to arrange them while keeping the smell in my memory. Trying to find a strong formation. An artificial natural formation. Trying to think about whether the smell brings back any memories. Trying to put the bread in relation to the crumbs that they leave on the concrete floor. I am in strong doubt that the toast bread is any good for this exercise.<br><br>
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In the third round the non-visual inspiration is taste and in the last one we get a piece of clay to modify as we are listening to electronic music. I am thinking that this is a bit too therapeutic. Or that this is what I think an older generation artist do; listen to music in their studios and create after what they feel. I work with concepts and ideas. Not with feeling. I still give it a go. The base becomes small holes, the reverb a wave formation and I try to make the clay look as happy as the music makes me feel and between the music and my struggle with the happy clay the experience of the workshop is starting to sink in. There is an understanding establishing about how challenging it is for me to not having any visual inspiration. How this makes me pay attention to thoughts, ideas and feelings that I have, that looking has coded me to pay less attention to.
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