Not the beginning of the blues, but I did wake up one morning knowing what I will make in the final unit, and what not. I had been thinking through and to some extent working on and off on the 24 Hour Sibelius idea for nearly a year, and suddenly various strands of thought came together. I am going to put that piece together, but not as part of the MA final project. In fact, it is almost all together already, and just needs a couple of days work.
I think the point is that I could feel and had to acknowledge that there is other work emerging in my mind for me to do. The moment I sent off the recent Reflective Practice assessment I had new work knocking at the door of my mind. I can see it, and I want to go there and see where it leads me in this last MA year.
Ideas for the 24 Hour Sibelius piece, turning it from just a sound piece into a moving image work were always a bit tacked on. It's a sound piece, and it's about sound. Furthermore, working on it and researching, etc, was beginning to feel inauthentic. I've already done all the work on it that I want to. It's an idea I love that is worth my while realising, and I hope to get the chance to exhibit it one day. In the meantime I shall just make it ready.
The new moving image ideas emerges more from the entire MA, and is lead by the work and ideas I have been actually working with.
I think the mind works very much like a model of the solar system, one of those planet Orreries which show the rotation and orbits of planetary bodies. Thought have different frequencies and cycles, and need time to mindfully complete their processing. The trick is trusting in that alignment, that moment of intuition and favourable eclipses when thoughts combine into insightful ideas.
I could extend that analogy further, and probably will in a piece of work.
But sometimes you just know, you know?
Models of Eleanor's mind
2nd October 2013
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