The familiar worn cobbles of the path reappear

...but nonetheless welcome for all that; of course, as usual the minute we resume time seems to accelerate and here in the blink of an eye a week has gone by.

I would have to say it has been satisfactory: I have managed to do some printing already - essentially things I want for the November event but also I have received a lot of welcome help from Alan and Bob in doing a full record of the Kildare Book or to give it its proper title :

 

Apologies for the white stains - letters are done in gouache which marks if touched; it needs to be cleaned and varnished - tomorrow

 

Here are a couple more shots of the interior:

 

 

 

The full copy has been saved as a PDF and I am not sure yet if I can post  - will try later.

 

Anyway, - first brief - to write a proposal for a semester -long project - this is a similar assignment to last year, but nothing as fully formed as Façade Edge has yet leapt to the inner eye. I have had vague notions about light and dark and views out from darkened rooms, tunnels, day/night and similar binary opposites but nothing really concrete.

I have surprised myself however in the seminar I have chosen  - 'Gothic'- given by Tracy Fahey with whom I have had a chance meeting since and on that basis am really looking forward to the course.

I think though that I can work this in with the proposal in that I might be able to work on the concept of dark/light in relation to faces, buildings both in ruins or partially destroyed of distorted and even perhaps overlapping and running into one another.

Here is one quick drawing which could be elaborated:

 

 

 

Now I know that is rather clichéd but it may provide some ideas; also our old friend the tower could undergo some modifications:

However, I went on a photo hunt this evening for ruins - for the first time in a week there were no decent crisp shadows but I got some interesting shots at Holycross Abbey:

Obviously, I have experimented a little with these but I have a few other places in mind for images.

The other thing I have been working on are possible artists and I have a few in mind.

One interesting aspect to all this is that I can see some intriguing experiments with photography, print and drawing already, but as yet no definite unity to the project.

More thought required.