Voice recordings from walks- all a bit Partridge

Notes from audio recordings for essay and typewriter text. Walking, thinking, working.

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• Looking for a purity of expression through drawing
• Looking for a purity in the expressive act
• Not only looking for an intellectual reaction (to my work) but a sensory reaction
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• Walking....erm....Walking today, good ideas, erm...triptych's, drawing of walking, text of ideas when walking, video of walking, video of Sonny at night, erm... ideas for D&R- if the studio is a site of psychological freedom-can the walk be a studio....from walking as an aesthetic act, from Bachelard to that studio reader, into walking as an aesthetic act...some of the papers I've downloaded recently....erm....the outdoor studio, shit like that....see Adam today, daylight projectors, Fiona Banner text work, all of that, yeah..
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• Looking at recording seven if you think, triptych, video, painting, Fiona Banner type text, because as Kerry says- painting is not a set of things -it's a set of a set of a set of things, so bringing the walk together it's just...it's not one thing, it's a 'Robinsonner' , a mental walk, it's a physical walk, it's an active walk, it's in the landscape, it's moving through the landscape, potentially affected by the landscape, or it ignores the landscape, so it's a set of a set of a set , triptych, quadratych, whatever the fuck that's called...
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• See Hope Lione's foundation work, how did she do the ticker tape text, come here dog, hap, good boy, for stopping, here are, good boys get biscuits, eh, good boys get biscuits, eh, .... yes, you're such a good boy.... eh....phew...call it Bruce Banner, yeah, I'm on it man, there you go, done, nice and fast, sticky green like Bruce banner, .....I'll be walking that walk for the next five years, eh wont I, ...man that's was awesome, I think I had a bit of a breakthrough..........
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• Studio as other, thinking about... the walk, if the walk is a space to dream, if the walk is somewhere where you don't think about the walk but you think about everything else, then maybe .... its maybe. ...there's the idea that you can't do the same walk twice, so that everything is brand new .... except when you do walk, you do think similar things, so there are triggers and things like that so maybe it's not about the walk, maybe it's about memory, or maybe it's about having the space to have that, maybe the space to think, of other things, new things and old, is it about memory, and place
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• What is my work about, my work is about, a space, it's about if you do something every day, over and over again, you start to think about it differently, because when you are doing it over and over again you actually start not to think about the thing you are doing because that becomes second nature, you start to think about other things, and potentially this is what Art is, Art is this space for thinking, so in my work, I go on the same walk every morning, ...now that's part of my domestic arrangements because I've got a dog, erm, but when I'm on this walk I think about lots of other things, I rarely think about the walk, I rarely think about the landscape I'm in , my mind is usually somewhere else, and, ... that can happen in the studio, you quite often are thinking about other things and so , my work is trying to explore this potential, this potential of being somewhere else or having the possibility.. of a time and a space that isn't recognisably our time and space, but is actually a site, if you like, for something else....so....my work and therefore my definition of Art is a space for thinking
• If the conditions of Art mean mental liberation, so if the studio is a place for practical activity and mental freedom, the walk is the same, I mean physical activity and mental freedom, we are very rarely in the landscape mentally, we are physically, in -as-much as the same as the studio, therefore maybe a train journey could be described as a studio because there is that sense of physical presence, most of the time you are thinking about other things, you are looking out of the window, thinking about something that happened the day before, or you are looking at a fellow passenger thinking about what's happening in their life and constructing narratives about them, which are wholly, invented, so if the conditions of art making are mental liberation and the state of that, then that is what we need to achieve before we begin the process of making art, and so it leads to the end point of the essay which might be Philip Gustons quote- when I go into the studio first of all I need to leave the dealer behind, then the news behind, then the family behind, then the issues of the day, and finally me, and only when I have left then I begin to start the painting...maybe that's what he meant..