I have been thinking for some time about alternate ways of speaking about my work aside from the white space tradition of an artist statement. Nothing is ground breaking in terms of ideas however, I have been considering pulling together the various ways in which I have observed and experienced my twelve objects over the past weeks whilst documenting them through photos, writing, drawing and painting. The abstraction is happening organically as I develop a muscle and minds eye memory for my objects as well as the stories which they contain for me personally. I feel the need to pull This collection of experiences together somehow, to assemble written and visual into one place. a book, a catalogue, an album maybe.

A book? There are the usual online sites for making a book, neither which appeal to me. For one this feels clinical, a smart little shiny book which arrives in the post and does not have my hand in it in the way that my painting or clay has. I also hate the process as I get tied up in the digital world of files and MB’s and so on.

I was looking back and remembering in year one when we attended the printmaking workshop, I had made a book of all of the marks which i made during the session. it was cobbled together with tape and mis-matched paper but at my crit unexpectedly people were drawn to it. This could be a way to record my objects?

I was thinking about my project presentation and how Josie noticed that my images of the objects were museum-like and did not well reflect the things that i was saying about object and nostalgic value and memory. The simple way which i had laid the objects in lines in a white space was a way for me to document the material of my objects clearly, a moment of clarity to begin, however there is something about this which draws a line between object of value and object of memory and personal value. The untouchable, detached nature of the formal display removing the sense of a familiar and loved item in some way. My work with these things has been about holding, touching, smelling and remembering. Remembering the physical and mental warmth of the human interaction they represent in my head. The stark contrast here is something which I find interesting. They are small collections of materials, some of which have product codes and branding. I think it would be interesting to include this information in an archival way in my book alongside the fragmented memories which I write freely as they occur to me when sensing the objects.