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| 'Word cloud' using initial artists statement for Diyafa project. Create your own world cloud here |
Often when commencing work on a new project, I'll begin by making a list or collection of starting points. Starting points can be anything, from an object to a piece of text, a photograph, song, place, memory, newspaper clipping or a particular technique for making. At the beginning, these starting points might shift and change, but I find its always useful to continuously edit, refine and come back to the initial starting points. At some point in the process a particular starting point(s) might become key to the ideas or concept of the project.
At this stage in the process of working on Diyafa, I am gathering, sorting and researching further into particular starting points. Already some of the objects that I have documented in my grandmothers house including old letters and photographs together with items I've found at the Tristan Narvaja market held each Sunday, have provided various potential points of departure. I often document starting points by taking photographs, drawing or making notes and lists. I enjoy engaging directly with the objects and responding to them through drawing or making small, quick samples with paper, thread or any other material that is handy. This is the part of the art making process that becomes invisible once the final artworks are resolved. My aim with this exhibition will not only be to document the process but to somehow also incorporate it into the exhibition.
