How to say goodbye to new friends and old friends.
Not sure what I'm feeling more - Pleased for those who took part and leapt in to the week or sad that its over..the displays, first up best dressed walls.
Then disassembled studios, onto the next thing.... but stop;
look at the destinations we've all arrived at in 7 days of creation.
The spaces people have inhabited to make work has been precious, fleeting and now visibly tangible, a series of experiences, caught up in time. Bonds made, diaries worked on, dialogued, lingering still.
What to do next time we set up for a week of intensive good times? will let others have their say.... add or subtract- keep the Mussels and MOMO!
It all felt good enough to wrap up and take home. Or leave behind for a corner in the garage. Next time...
Did I miss the shopping, the ice creams, the beach,the garden,the books? No.
Miniature shibori studies on textiles and a great deal more led by India, flowing lines of life drawing...agreeably demonstrated by Bodhi, the painted colour of the sky and beach much to learn from Michael, the gaze of natural Kapiti summer light on silver cuttlefish casting with Hanne,Owen's prehistoric tools for present day bone digs - the respite after the day has been spent...
Planning to meet again in a few days,weeks and months,
looking forward to more seasonal adventures in this space.
2 comments:
thanks Deb and Owen (and all the other assorted assistants) for organising this wonderful event. nourishing for the spirit as well as straightforward technical skills acquisition!
looking forward to the next one...
ka kite ano
india
ps if my beautiful and treasured aluminium pot comes to light in someone's luggage, please deliver it to Deb, so she can keep it safe against my return to Aoteroa
so sorry to have missed this summer school - maybe papermaking will run next year. Prue Townsend- papermaker
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