As I explained in my previous two posts on the subject, I’ve really been enjoying creating artistic responses as part of the required assignments for my Coursera course in art history. The final one was based around Velazquez’s work, Las Meninas, which you can see here. It’s a complicated work, featuring a circuit of gazes, […]
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#FridayFlash – Pyro
This flash follows last week’s story, Spark. The man in the white coat found her. He saw only a girl on fire, not a young woman aflame with real potential. He ran for help, and she found herself locked in a tiled room. After an hour she recognised it as the shower room. Nothing combustible […]
Very Inspiring Blog Award
Amanda from Gift Frippery nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blog Award. I’m surprised because ‘inspiring’ is not an adjective I’d normally apply to myself, but I’m clearly pleased as well! So thank you, Amanda. So here are the rules. 1. You thank the person who nominated you and provide a link to their blog […]
Responding using Art 2
As I explained in my post last week, I’ve been working on assignments for an online course about art history, and trying to use these assignments as a springboard back into artistic practice. For the second assignment, we were instructed to choose an object or an image, turn it into something else, then turn it […]
#FridayFlash – Spark
A brick manor squats amid rolling fields and meandering woods. In years gone by it housed a grand family and their social aspirations. Now it houses a family of another type, strangers bound by difference and the professional parents who seek to understand them. The occupant of room 23 is one such stranger. She knows […]
Would you use a microwave to fuse glass?
It might sound a bit mental, but yes – you could certainly do so! However, whether you would or not is possibly open to debate. Anyway. Back at the start of the month, I attended a workshop at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland to make jewellery using microwave fused glass. I like learning new […]
