brain about to explode.....

Location project is taking over my life. Trouble is the more I research the more I find out more things that take me off on tangents....

Have been reading "Richard Deacon" published by Phaidon and found some great quotes from Mary Douglas ...from her book "Purity and Danger". Fits nicely into my ideas for working on the theme of evil- and moving into ambiguity.she suggests that dirt, being "matter out of place"- is not only profane but ..deeply sacred... The deviant or transgressive are both better managers of contradiction and also less dependent on authority than the fanatic and may therefore be more effective agents of transformation"

... ok, I know it all sound a bit pretentious, but I'm really interested in the role of negativity/ evil/ whatever form you wish to choose, has in creating change and challenging us. (and I love the concept of producing art that people find uncomfortable, that challenges them to reconsider what they think....whether it is personal and too personal for them to cope with, or on bigger issues.

Then followed up on Mary Douglas- I knew it! Really important anthropologist died 2007. Should have studied anthropology.... Was put on to Claude Levi-Strauss by ethnomusicology lecturer all those years ago & loved that. Kind of fits in well with my twin obsessions with making bread & ceramics- my pet theory on what makes us human revolves around those 2 activities Oh well, better late than never... maybe I could pay homage to her in my next project. How about reliquaries of dust and dirt and rubbish? Glass, ceramics, laminated... sewn onto textiles, textiles made of rubbish... I think I'm getting somewhere.

See what I mean- I start by thinking about doing preserving detritus from the mill in plaster, resin and clay and then go down a totally new track....