The Golden Bough and subsequent tutorial have sort of kicked me into gear a bit. As Richard predicted I have found the start of this second year a little slow on motivation and my home/personal life has been kicking my arse the last two months and it’s just exhausting. Things are settling down a bit now and I am starting to formulate some plans and thoughts together that feel good. I’ve an intervention with Dad La Soul planned for the end of March which I am more or less prepared for already.
I have had some good conversations with both the Director and Head of Facilitation of Beyond Equality and I will be coming in to observe a couple of their workshops sometime soon. They have a new series in development working with you school aged boys on toxic masculinity, relationships and sexual harassment and it’ll be really interesting to see. They’re interested in developing resources and events for parents down the line so this initial collaboration is hopefully one that will lead to some other good things.
After some conversations with both Richard and Jasminka I have come to the conclusion not to end this blog (obvs as I’m writing right now!) and keep it going in the same vein it is in. It’s a helpful tool and will remain a private space to continue brain dumping and working through everything. I am formulating a plan and beginning to put into action the public facing part of the project on Insta which I think should work well. Whilst I can taylor it to the project question directly I can also keep it broad and all encompassing which I think will serve the wider ideas of the MA well.
I’m also starting to create some more art work related to porn aspect of what I have been doing. Making the Golden Bough was really helpful and I know that artistic process is always the best way to get my brain in gear. I actually had the idea whilst working on the painting and had thought to myself I should have done it then but actually if it works well I think it could be the basis for an interesting intervention. More on that as time passes.