Fuel and work.

I was researching In to the Wild and loved the heartbreak in the story, and started thinking about his calls for help, I have created some abstract collages which could be calls of help from a madman, I'm also making a film with empty tins and bottles etc doing a percussive film, then putting effects on it to sound like its being played in an open wilderness, so empty that you feel lost ,almost claustraphobic, because of the varse space, I guess the opposite, but a horrible sensation no people around to interact with

The collages I'm blowing up with photocopiers, screen printing, and doing digital work seeing which works best, the results will be shown as three collages and a film I am really excited about this and will be busy.

The artists I have been researching aren't particularly contemporary, but Its my favourite work really.

Robert Raushenberg Retroactive 1 1964, is almost a combination of abstract expressionism and pop art, but he looked at a more political angle he also did lots of performance, film all sorts, but I love the layers its amazingly vivid, basically like a time capsule of the era.

Martin Kippenberger I am too political,

Every aspect of Martin Kippenberger’s practice was a self-contained act of decadence, designed to add to the myth of the artist as a whole. In I Am Too Political, Martin Kippenberger paints an image stripped of direct content: six canvases joined together as one form a billboard-like design, bolstering a grotesque nude. Kippenberger’s painting operates as an anti-advert for itself, poking fun at the tradition of painting and the way it’s been historically and ideologically subverted.

I want to do the work of a different person a character almost.

My phone died or is dead, or is paralysed anyway, I was caught in the storm and I have lost a lot of ideas I saved in there, and poems I was working on whilst wandering hopefully it will work again just for an hour so I can regrasp those Ideas put them in my notebook, I mean I'm not sure If there masterpiece ideas but.

I will attach photographs of my half year review show soon.

I have hopefully got an interview with spearfish the company that do Eurocultured festival for an internship, They do festivals in manchester and Belfast and further afield I have connections with both of those cities either with family or a general fondness.

I performed at Fuel for the new up and coming poets like Lauren Bolger, at there night Paradox, I was one of three musical acts, I got a great reception and reaction to all the new songs, and covers of The Smiths, I seem to get a lot of attention from thirty something women when I perform, any reception is good but when I started out didn't really know what my target audience would be.

I am doing a live session on All FM, and hopefully going to be allowed to keep the recording then I shall send that off to other record companies and radio stations hopefully BBC introducing will like it.

Just think there might have been a break through, I know exactly what I want to do really, music but not in the straight sense I like troubadours and odd balls like Tom Waits so If I had that character when I performed ace.

We have our review next week, half year all the work we've done so far, I know what I'm doing now.