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Object handling session











Objects in first group: Canoe prows, spirit wand, shell belts, coral necklaces, feather and grass fans, boat, figure with fish,
Objects in second group: fish hooks, fans, Liz’s pieces, boat
Responses to objects
It helps us to remember when we were fish.
Married to divinity of plants, trees and fish
We are the Earth-part of nature
Tradition of being innovative
Must shimmer
Wealth-true exchange
Mobility, flow-air, water, blood (communities) If you arrest this-there is poverty.
Re fan- call of the wind-on line-genealogies-links back to the gods-caught-potent
Binding/reciting
Re-activate processes-talking to the ancestors
Stories accumulate
Gods and goddesses don’t accept mediocre.
Prow-when a canoe is on the ocean it is one thing, but when it is on land it will crack-so it won’t have the same function any more
Canoe/boat-upright it represents a person-horizontal a house
Multi functional and symbolic-power incarnate
Artists personify things-which enable conversation
Appropriate to the coast
In charge of the memories-must compliment-narrative accompanies objects-they speak back to us-artists make them sing and dance
We must be diverse-it’s what makes us wealthy
Forms used in different places-land, sea
Ideas of beauty
Re canoe prows-rituals, processes, training-is re-balance after preparing for war
Woodcarving done by men not women
Gods and goddess’ ‘food’-it’s all about food
Gets us close to perfection
Makers-users-community
Male and female experts
Good at organising-artisans are fed
Acknowledge that you are going to ‘change yourself’ whilst process is ‘on’.
Indivisible-function and form
Crabs are the people of Cromer-they are in the people of Cromer
Beach stories-make crabs
Ensure fertility of crabs
Takes love and attention to catch a fish-all or nothing
People themselves have a hard shell-and are soft inside
Exchanging and flowing
Bird quality
Time spent doing something basic
Parrot like markings
Birds connect to the sea (not just fish)
Human beings-sea not our environment-but we do connect
Respectful
Flow through every piece
Range of weaving techniques
Precise, awe, inspiring
Pattern suited to that particular grass
All represent movement from an environment that is never still
Water, trees, shadows, grasses
Patterns-regular considered ways
Sea -Unpredictability-though has a pattern too(tides/waves)
Relationships between materials
Physical and intimate knowledge with materials
(shells/ grasses)-by finding the best thing for the job
Very tactile
Little boat resonates with George’s boat
Liz’s boat made from: brick tiles from buildings which fell onto the beach-Cromer/Eccles-worn into something organic
Brick pebbles used to contain us
A series of containers made from objects that were once containers
Fluidity-in becoming different things
Sea claims land-buildings fall into the sea
Dog balls-everything is ultimately a natural material
Playing with the idea-different resonances, imbuing them with different things
Coast with shifting boundaries-meaning and literally
Local and natural resources
When you work with materials as an artist, part of the process is that knowing the material’s qualities
Cornish fishing festival in Mousehole
Has been documenting peasant communities in Hungary-richness of lives-dark winter evenings-things made in groups
Decorative and powerful
Value the exotic
One offs-not repetitive-original-bespoke
Re figure with fish-comical human form-animated
Lots of things can’t determine what they are
Lobster pot shows just as much care
Had time to decorate
Decoration informed by function
Interested in the conversations that went on whilst making was happening
Identity of place
Environmental, social
Slight differences make a big impact
Ancestral infinity
Spirals-continuation of life
Cairns on mountains-add to something on beach-shells/stones-tide washes it way in a day
Guernsey jumper patterns passed on generation to generation-with no written/drawn patterns
Crabs still caught individually
Families support fishermen
Participatory
Placating gods we use to have that philosophy here
Re-birth
Hotel de Paris
Resource material:
World art objects:
- Babergh
- Breckland
- Broadland
- Forest Heath
- Great Yarmouth
- Ipswich
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Mid Suffolk
- North Norfolk
- Antingham & Southrepps Primary School
- Coast Festival
- Cromer Junior School
- East Ruston Community Infant School
- Fakenham High School
- Global Coast
- Happisburgh Primary School
- Little Snoring Primary School
- Mundesley Encounters
- Mundesley Junior School
- North Walsham High
- North Walsham Junior
- Sidestrand Hall School
- Stalham High School
- Stibbard Primary School
- Norwich
- South Norfolk
- St. Edmondsbury
- Suffolk Coastal
- Waveney
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