Another Year... This time I WILL keep this updated (in the 13 week countdown). Progress on degree show ideas = 0. I started to make a research wall today to photograph - in a panic I started writing research directly onto the wall and soon realised that the quantity of blank wall space in relation to the lack of research to fill it was rather larger than anticipated. I've been mulling over the idea of doing something with pastel lights since I saw a girls performance in Prague where she moved white foam boards in front of pastel lights to create this weird cushioned, pulsating space. I think the memory was triggered by the Karla Black exhibition I visited at Inverleith House this weekend. The repulsively sticky, makeup colours in soft shades - like swimming in candyfloss! I'm bored of minimalist, monochrome text, on cheap photocopies taped to walls with masking tape. In Black's exhibition there was paint on the floor, foot prints in the plaster, mud, crumpled paper. If I remember rightly the fun thing about art at school was the legitimate mess. Now the studios look like offices, bring back the mess I say!