Dadaism and Blood

Okay, so Wednesday and Thursday and there's me all no show because my head is down a toilet staring at my own blood. Sorry for the graphic image but it wasn't really rainbows and puppies for your trusted author either. So, I heave myself out of my deathbed (okay, now I'm just exaggerating and I know it) and get my arse to uni on my day off, to be given the new brief, 'Visual Equations'. And I'm staring at this brief thinking to myself, 'have I missed something?', like I've just walked into a drunken conversation with two strangers and one is arguing about penguins and melting ice-caps and the other is trying to compare this to his grandmother's typewriter. The slurring obviously isn't helping.

SO (I swear the blood came from my brain and now I am crazy) I'm starting how you usually do- with research. I'm starting with a favourite photographer, Dan Eldon, whose life is a fascination to me, Matisse (for classical comparison) and The Lazarus Corporation (a mixture of contemporary collage artists and writers- screams Dadaism).

On the Dada note- that thing is still driving me crazy. I DO NOT want to do an illustration and I have good reasoning for it. If the brief is to be inspired by Dada then I am surely going to have go down the collage route. But my sentence/poem was about emptiness. EMPTINESS!! How can I make a collage empty? Jesus I'm giving myself a tumour. Unless...I use a lot of negative space. Me thinks this is a dire situation.

A Dire Situation- in thinking for a project, when I feel a little lost I get on a bus. A long bus ride is perfect to think. If it is a mini dire situation I go for a cigarette. Headphones, a sketchbook and tobacco are my tools.

Okay. Plannage-

1) Stop being so ill. It's not sexy nor is it helpful.

2) Go for a cigarette and a bite to eat.

3) Dada- read the sentence again and have a little scribble in the old sketchbook

4) Research Glyphs (which I missed the mini-crit but that is a whole new story)

5) Research for new brief

6) Read through shizzle to see if there's anything else

Excellent. A plan. I feel like I need some Post-Its to really set it off :)

Happy ill days x