'Blue Oyster'- art project space- response.

In May, I answered a call out from ‘Blue Oyster’ -art project space in Dunedin, accepting the invitation to respond to ephemera sent to me from the recent exhibition ‘Pieces Spaces Species’, wth artists; Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye, Lucy Hill and Taarn Scott.
I love the idea of extending a moment of creativity and seeing the many ways in which it can grow and the conversations it creates space for. I was sent photographs, clay, wax, rubbings, poetry responses and instruction on how to use the bees wax candle.

The ‘Notes of Dispersal’ project will be included in an online archive that serves as a vessel for on going dialogues between varying participants, extending the conversation beyond the finishing point of the exhibition itself. My response will be included in the archive.

Being a painter, of course I imagined creating something visual with paint as my response. I ended up doodling with aquarelle water soluble pencils on an already started ink and pen work from my Talisman Series. it was very immediate and intuitive. I had a lot of fun in creating it but the highlight my have been when after days of not knowing what else was supposed to fill the middle, lower section of Orange, I spied the bottom of my saucepan while cooking and saw the hive patterning. I knew I had to frottage it, as an exciting combining of the Bee references as well as the rubbings in blue.

It is a very fluid series and much of my response to the ephemera I was sent, had me feel as though I was responding to various forms of fluidity (water, teas, honey, wax) and to a definite flow and structure, (maps and bee hives and sensibilities)