9 am on the morning of Saturday 12th and today we start METRON. i am gathering materials and images to take to the space. i have awoken feeling unwell this morning and pretty low in energy. my body wants to rest.
i need to invigorate myself into the work and the space. to try and do so i have this morning taken a photograph of the rampant rosemary bush in my back garden. i am up-loading it as a first picture to the blog. it is a herb that is symbolic of remembrance and that is the theme that i want to connect to METRON.
we chose the name METRON for this project because it is the Greek root of the word metre. of course this is a measurement of distance and Alun’s piece RUN describes that.
my interest in the word is in the metre as an equal division of rhythm musically or poetically. i am relating this to the heartbeat which is a sign and rhythmic measurement of a life passing. i anticipate that the works i make for METRON will reference time and lives spent, memory and what seems to be an innate human need to remember.
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of course, by the time i’ve got to the end of this comment, time will already have passed– and who knows if what remains here for everyone to read will even be what i start off writing– clare’s piece today (pounding rosemary, to the pounding audio of ‘run’) reminded me not only of the passing of time but the way we don’t ever retain our memories (or eat our rosemary) as a piece– with such a strong taste, you need to mash and shape and sort before the rawness becomes usable– so alun’s piece (edited and cut and mashed) reminded me of memories i’m close to, but that i don’t own, things i saw (or heard about) but saw differently– the footsteps and heartbeat of someone i’m close to, but who really really isn’t me.