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starting to hang them now.  change in colour represents a new letter of the alphabet.  upto G now still got along way to go.  
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A B and C

...getting there slowly...

its just like learning your ABC

 new piece in progress....

...stay tuned...

"Play becomes celebration; celebration becomes work; work becomes play," wrote Johannes Itten

Barbican -Bauhaus: Art as Life - as it should be

 Went to see the Bauhaus show at the Barbican yesterday, totally amazing, but then the Bauhaus is.  I became really intrigued in the precedence play was given to the creative process.  I am becoming more and more drawn to the notion of play and how important it really is not just to  artistic development but to life in general.  Going on my basic understanding (more reading is necessary) play is encouraged in children, as they learn skills through it, but not encouraged in adults and some how I think it is just as crucial for adults.  I'd like to tap into that within my own work.  The Bauhaus were onto something there, play is so important.

The costumes and puppets made in the Theatre Workshop in particular were really exciting
 

 Paul Klee's puppets

  

No Title just a Piece

New Piece. 

Squares and Rectangles

If you look its amazing how everything is contained.  Even when its scruffy and supposedly unordered.  Squares and rectangles continuously crop up.  It's calming and reassuring; the straight edge, the repetition, clear boundaries.  It must be a subconscious need.  Obviously I understand the practicalities that result from ordering and containing.  I just find it interesting visually how these shapes continuously crop up. 

I also like the disorder that comes with the order in these photographs.  The not quite even repetitions.  The make do, improvisation, leaving a trace.

up up up

it's finally up.  it took three people but it's up.  might still need some work though