In response to the whine “You
could just use your credit.” I explain to my children that sometimes you cannot
just use your credit card. That leaving
your bedroom light on is the difference between a hot chocolate at a café or
not. But I think this is nearly the only
time, other than my drawing or making practice that there is an active
conversation of “making do”.
Working with Anna Winnekke, an artist
in Fryerstown Central Victoria, to exchange art works via instagram and a blog
backed up with the commitment to put on a public showing is the pressure
mechanism for Amending. Problem solving squished up with a weekly deadline
shakes out imbedded routines of problem solving.
Outside the blocks of the city you
can be reassured you will find the same products, displayed within aisles,
within the same designed packaging.
These purchased solutions are in my home and are an everyday part of my
life. Here, outside this Amending part of my life, I
am not exercising my-making-do
muscle.
Teamed up with my Amending making-do
exercise partner I get into a twelve week commitment to revisit, discard and
make do. Amongst the ever ending
shopping lists and calendar commitments this is our chance to Amend our
domestic, our creative practice and become inventors, heroines and boundary
breakers.
Viewing a recent work by Ash Keating in
Bendigo at the moment, the West ParkProposition I lap up with joy the viewing of his detailed planning, the
work of his body to impact upon the presence of the prefabricated enormous
storage building holding prefabricated ready made goods – it is likely I will
be purchasing some of these soon.
While I am chopping up icky dishwashing
gloves to make into a necklace or a ryveta pack to become a vase for sticks
little doubt thoughts come to me – will this work? Will this be craft? What will they think? I hate this, but the deadline is NOW!
An online article describes Ash as apart dedicated monk, part plein air
painter and part graffiti provocateur. “As he squirts paint-filled fire
extinguishers onto the dull grey canvas of the building and throws buckets of
paint at the surface like discarded dish water, a variety of cameras pan and
fly passed the action. This multiplicity of viewer angles brings a heroic
element to the action”.[1]
Simply Amending is a bracket of commitment
that is screwed onto and over Anna’s and mine daily activity to keep our family
happening, money arriving in and health perky.
Much like any artist or crafts person practice – when the truth of the
matter is it is really hard to make art all the time because there just isn’t
any money in it! – perhaps it is even impossible to just make art without life
because then there is no shopping – I mean no content to Amend!
The
Amending making can be viewed in
Castlemaine during Craft Cubed festival at Harry & George’s Fruit and Vegetable Store 170 Barker Street,
Castlemaine
or visit amending.wordpress.com
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