Inspire 52 - Week 20. Passport To Your Imagination

I have not been sleeping very much these last couple of nights due to getting stuff done, and yes, stuff is indeed getting done! One more sleep to go until I start working on putting up the exhibition tomorrow in Lighthouse, Poole. Yippie! I suppose the official phrase would be 'I'm going to hang my exhibition tomorrow', but given that some of the main features of my exhibition involve things like a wardrobe installation, an album and United Kingdom of The Monochronium passports, not much 'hanging' is going to be going on - and as for The Paper Forest, well I like to think of it more as 'growing my exhibition'! The only hanging I will be doing, is hanging around having a cup of green tea whilst waiting for the paint to dry, as we partake in step one tomorrow of preparing the gallery walls and plinths.

So given that I need to get some sleep and there are only 45 minutes left of week 20, I need to get a groove on and tell you what happened this week.

Well, as with last week, this week has been pretty full on and so much art I don't know where to begin so I will choose just one thing ... soemthing very exciting ... the passports arrived this week! Yes, now it's becoming more real than ever and I now can welcome the public to get a passport to adventure into The Monochronium exhibition, as well as discovering it as a pathway to their imagination.

I also took the opportunity to be inspired by a new piece that I have created for the exhibition - The Ink Mountains.

There is indeed a beautiful song, poem, story, performance and installation that are part of this piece of work, but this wasn't enough for me! So I illustrated it too, and not just one picture, oh no - 2! And in order to share the love I cut it up and packaged it up into 12 unique passport packages for the first 12 lucky purchasers to get theri hands on at the private view of the exhibition on the 30th May. This whole adventure is becoming rather epic! But loving it ... sorry if I am blabbering on, I am feeling rather delerious, but trying to hold it together ... I have a feeling that as soon as I have finiched this I will shut my eyes and conk out right away ...where was I, oh yes ... Here's what happened ...

The Ink Mountains

Just one drop falling

falling

falling

Frozen in time on the top of the mountain

One drop

One drop of time to take the path

One drop of a moment to make it last

Cast in glass

A fragile course

To find the way deep into the source.

Search for the answer and follow the clue

Just one drop falling will follow you.

Search for the answer it wont look for you

Follow the inked path in black inky blue.

Just one drop

Falling

Calling the clues

Into the Ink Mountains,

The figures defuse

Just one drop

recalling the words

Of eagling birds

falling and soaring

above in the sky

Over the Ink Mountains

Frozen in time

Into the depths and far beyond

A place you never told me I could go on,

This path wove a treadmill beneath my feet,

And the words of the forest began to speak.

'Dance with us, we'll show you the way'.

Over the mountains and far away... 

11.52pm - Only just made it ... right I'm off to bed, another busy week ahead ... over and out. 

Inspire 52 - Week 19. A Week In The Life

Wow, what a week. It's all going a bit mental at the moment, collaborations ahoy all in preparation for my upcoming exhibition, 'Adventures Into The Monochronium'. I am lost with what's going on for Inspire 52 because I seem to be oozing creativity in every direction! So the best I can do for this week is give a breakdown of where it's all been at ... bear with me guys, I'm preparing for quite a mammoth exhibition so ... things on Inspire 52 are going to be a bit crazy for a few weeks ...

Without going into much detail, here is a brief outline of the week ...

Monday 7th May
- All day Street Art performances in Poole Street Arts Festival - The Ticket Office
- Work on the new jewellery collection for the upcoming exhibition

 

        Photograph by Howard Shepherd

Tuesday 8th May
- Work at a contemporary Craft gallery
- Freelance work on Festival coordination

Wednesday 9th May
- Studio session with Momo, working on the soundtrack album for 'Adventures Into The Monochronium'.
- Ordering merchandise for the exhibition and prep for collaboration with an illustrator
- Freelance work on Festival coordination
- Visit to photographer to document art work
- Yoga  

Thursday 10th May
- Travel to Taunton to work in a collaborative exhibition 'Cultivate 2', created work in response to and in collaboration with a student's art work from Berlin, Germany.
- ordered badges for exhibition
- Art work for front and back cover collaboration with a silk weaver - pictures and artist illustrated books with poetic story.

Friday 11th May
- Training at the gym
- Freelance work on Festival coordination
- collection of item from 'Wardrobe home' from the Arts University - Collaboration with Interior Design Student
- preparation for collaborative project workshop with a storyteller/Theatre practitioner
- Studio session with Momo, working on the soundtrack album for 'Adventures Into The Monochronium'.

Photograph collage by Leoni Bullcock

Saturday 12th May
- All day public workshop - the first phase of new collaborative project with a storyteller/Theatre practitioner 'In Your Shoes' for the new fairy tales 'La Fille et Les Chaussures' and 'Killer Heels'
- Drive to yogic retreat - Dance

Sunday 13th May
- Rest and chill until 8pm
- admin work in the evening

 

Photograph by Howard Shepherd

 
So all in all a very busy week, and more of that to come next week ... I am just loving being absorbed in my art, this is where I am meant to be, it is all becoming so much more real and continues to reveal more levels to me constantly ... it's an amazing journey.

Inspire 52 - Week 18. The Ticket Office

Hello Peeps!

Time is getting on, where is the white rabbit?

I can hardly keep up with myself as we come racing into May. What's ahead is all very exciting and I find myself in a constant state of edginess between utter excitement and wonder at how on earth I am going to pull this all off! I am sure I will, always manage it somehow ... and then I'll sit back on my park bench in The Paper Forest in June with a mini cup of Guiness, absorbed into The Monochronium and ponder black and white thoughts of loveliness as I gaze into the stars ... I guess you'll just have to come to the exhibition to see what I'm on about ... or indeed, I am sure I will be blogging about it too.

So what's going on this week? Well next Monday (Bank Holiday Monday) I will be performing a new performance piece as part of Poole Street Arts Festival - The Ticket Office.

You will be able to come and pick up a ticket and get it stamped in exchange for expressions of your imagination as to what imaginary sport you would like to take part in or see at the Black and White (Monochronium) Olympics. So this week I have been ticketting ... and here it is ...

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Sorry I can't stop too long this week ... still got work to do tonight ... but I hope you have enjoyed the poem, are continuing to enjoy the Inspire 52 ride, I certainly am, it keeps me on my toes, may need to buy some pointy ballet shoes soon!

Until next week ... prepare yourselves for this!...

Following the success of Hazel Evans' début solo exhibition, The Monochronium in October 2011, as Lighthouse's first ever Resident Visual Artist, Hazel now takes us further into the experience of her art practice with Adventures Into The Monochronium.

Adventures Into The Monochronium is set to be an extraordinary creative experience that will lead you into a multi sensory voyage into the surreal black and white world of Hazel's Monochronium. You will be able to journey into a Paper Forest, visit the Ink Mountains and experience The Wardrobe Studio where you can obtain a passport to The Kingdom of The Monochronium. You will also be able to watch Hazel and other artists create new works of art in her ever evolving developmental exhibition over six weeks.

Hazel will be featuring collaborations with Illustrator and writer Hayley Potter MA RCA with live explosive art with an entire wall of paper and ink, Silk Weaver Debby Kirby with woven illustrated pictures and artist books, and Musician Timo Peach from Momo Tempo with a soundtrack to accompany the entire exhibition and guide you through the gallery space.