Week two. Wednesday 10th November.

The stack going down
4.30pm Wednesday 10th November

9pm

Alison helping to mop up the last breaks

Friday 5th November. collapsing and rebuilding.

9pm Friday

Thursday 4th November...

Before

After

Is it madness. Is it beauty. Ongoing diary. Day one, 2nd november 2010

4pm. Getting ready for day one.

Clare and Gill

As the water spills from the collapsing bowls, Gill or myself mop the water. The mop and bucket work like a cloak of invisibility. People carry on personal conversations a table width away. Even though it is clear we are facilitating the work, we vanish into our task.

9pm. End of day one.

Is it madness. Is it beauty

In rehearsal for 'Is it madness.Is it beauty'. 31 November 2010.

Gill Clarke and myself will be helping Clare Twomey realise her installation piece 'Is it madness. Is it beauty' at the Siobhan Davies Studios over the next two weeks. The piece will evolve over time and I will post regular photographs of its development and/or destruction.

The piece is described: "Futile actions of hope continue, unrelenting, despite their impending devastation..."

2nd November to 7th November and 10th November to 14th November to see it in action. 85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6ER. See www.siobhandavies.com for times.

1000 sketches

1000 sketches over 4 weeks from 3 minutes of choreographed movement... 2 pieces of jewellery completed, 8 to discover.

metal, movement and simplicity

I know its not new to wax lyrical over the beauty of Michael Good's jewellery forms, but in the middle of researching and designing a new collection of jewellery based around choreographed movement, I find myself returning to his pieces. He manages to capture flow and tension...