☼ flaming june

⨅⨆ there/not there

never thought I'd spend a few hours

looking at Invisible art

art about the unseen 1957~2012

at the Hayward Gallery

took me by surprise

despite the serenity and silence within the

exhibition spaces

there's lots to see

 untitled (a curse)

 Tom Friedman hired a practising witch 

and instructed her to cast a curse onto

an eleven inch spherical space which 

 hovers eleven inches above the empty plinth

no-one seemed to dare touch 

language becomes important when you're looking

at a piece of white paper or walking into a space

as people give careful attention to reading the

pale grey accompanying texts

{the gallery playing an amusing joke on us as we squint}

we are told there are actors among us

hired by Bethan Huws, to change our

perception and polarity within the gallery

we speculate as to who it might be ....

the lady coughing loudly into a tissue?

a man who comments on a piece as we stare

like Bruno Jakob, but not for 1000 hours

Jakob's Invisible paintings use 

light/touch/air/breath/snails

we bend and move to catch sight of silver trails

energy/brainwaves/love/water

there's a gentle humour to his work

poetic ~ the unseen green 

instructions 

simply typed on a4 paper by Yoko Ono

HAND PIECE
Raise your hand in the evening light
and watch until it becomes transparent
and you see the sky and trees through it.
1961 Summer 

Beijing artist Song Dong keeps an invisible

diary written in water on a stone

the freedom to write freely secretively

there's a darker side to invisibility

a tunnel, pitch black, all you can hear

is your breath, other people's breath,

shuffling, uncertainty

The Ghost of James Lee Byars (1969/1986)

then a room with two cooling systems

the superfine mist and that certain scent

as we discover, the containers are filled with

20 litres of water, previously used to wash

the bodies of murder victims before autopsy

Aire by Teresa Margolles 

this clinical scene a far cry from the violent

streets of Mexico City

what are these artists trying to say?

are they fooling us or prodding at the limits

of visibility, presence, the public and perception?

∠∟ bunking off

this week I bunked off work for the afternoon to see

0.34 miles (0.54km)

an exhibition by printmaking and book arts students

at Camberwell College of Arts

anything paper or folded and I'm in!

spoondrift by xizhi li

tessellated and ceramic like

by misa gott

with moving parts

tick tick 

life is a waste of time

time is a waste of life 

by yumeng chen

auspicious

quoth the raven, never more

by katharine libretto

images taken from a self-assembled camera

aperture 1,2,3

by mandy prowse

handled with gloves

remember 

by katherine eves

darkly revealing

memory overload

by margaret cooter

precisely cut and my personal favourite

redacted

by karen apps

paper ~ 

fragile, communicative, strong

subverted, deconstructed

public and private

delivering a new message

the show runs daily from 1~5pm

{except Sunday} until 21st June:

see for yourselves

⁁⁁ if you go down to the woods

funny how you stumble on things on the net:

a tweet lead me to a blog which linked to 

this blog about a local community event

inviting anyone to ~

"cast on 25 stitches {or more or less}

knit or crochet anything you like

for 200cms {or more or less}"

so I did

in greens

my favourite colour

on Friday I went to Hockley Woods

and met Jess Worley and Chris

knitting and nattering

{and being bugged my gnats}

so I joined them

and even tried a bit of knitting myself

{I haven't done this since I was about 10 dear readers!}

so many colourful lengths

all joined together by Jess

to be wrapped around the tree

and park bench

I wonder what the squirrels and birds will make of it?