Sam finished his SATs a couple of weeks ago, so let him have day off school to come and watch his friend's sister KM in Billy Elliot. About 15 of us went and had fantastic seats. What a show! The kid playing Billy was absolutely amazing - so much energy and talent. Sam was on the edge of his seat (so was I!) and came away really inspired. Need to check out 'Billy School'!
Then half term was upon us. Seemed to go so quickly and can't really think what we did. Spent a lot of time at home in the garden enjoying the beautiful weather. It was the village fayre on Monday and I helped out on the Scouts stall. - the boozy tombola - that seemed very popular with 16-year-olds! Hmmm! One of the highs of the week was rainy Wednesday when Sam and I went to see Coraline - amazing 3D animation, amazing story, weirdly dark - just my cup of tea.
Sam spent loads of time in the shed with his music making. He has started to upload to Dope Tracks http://www.dopetracks.com/profile/sjkoolboy. I love the idea of being able to share your music this way and that people can access it to rap over - but not too sure about his 'fans', the language they use and the discussions they are entering into. Wondered if there was scope here to follow this as some kind of research project. Need to give this a bit more thought.
DFSA has got the gallery for the Summer Show and, wow, it looks good. Private View on Thursday was great fun but too busy chatting to look at other courses so returned on Saturday for another look.
About Me
- rosie gunn
- At my research presentation last year some interesting questions were asked about why I would want to make work about my children and try to pass it off as research? So I guess I am currently trying to rationalise this and work out my methodology? This year, as yet, I haven’t taken any research leave to reflect on this in depth, but I am using this blog to collect my thoughts and track emerging themes. Firstly, I think it is very important to make clear that the work is about my experience of motherhood just as much or perhaps even more than it is about the children. My work has always been about rejecting the camera’s point of view as ‘male’ and through this particular work I am casting myself, the artist, as ‘a mother watching’. Occasionally, I too, appear in the work so I guess I am making an acknowledgement of self-portraiture within the work.
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