I am not what I call a "creative" person. I have loads of ideas and try different approaches and take risks in my business but fundamentally I feel more comfortable sticking to a script, a recipe, a pattern rather than improvising. The early signs of creativity which involved making little compositions on the piano and syncopating exisiting rhythms around the age of 4 was soon drummed out of me when I began to get formal piano lessons from a very well-meaning, but traditional piano teacher. This continued for the next 14 years through all the grades. I now have a highly developed aural sense but looking back now I wonder what might have been nourished if there had been more of a balance between reading and playing piano music by the great composers and creating my own albeit very basic compositions. I currently spend most of my time working with artists on projects and exhibitions and making sales for artists. I am fed by the experience of working closely with people who have a highly developed visual and aesthetic sense but there seems little time for me to develop my own interest in making my own "art". I am sure this is how many people feel.
On a very cold sunny day last week I felt the need to look at the sea rather than the four walls of my office and armed with a suggestion from my artist husband, Marco Crivello, and a mission to use my new IPhone, I set off with a plan to really look and find things to collect, or "capture" from my trip - a kind of psychogeography...
I first encountered a bit of old rubber with a beautiful delicate pattern of mould or fungus which I brought home and now sits on a plinth on our windowsill. There followed a short sound recording of the scrunch of the stones as I walked and the sound of the sea (I am attaching the sound recordings here but I have no idea whether they can be opened via a blog), an image of the sunlight on the water; what were meant to be a horizantal line of circles embedded in the cliffs -nesting holes for birds - the holes are almost invisible in the photograph but the blue sky looks good; a group of weathered rectangular red bricks against the varying greys of the circular stones on the beach; an image of some neatly written names of previous visitors in chalk - I liked the evidence of people having had a good time and the style of script and finally the bright green glass of the windows of the newly refurbished National Trust café - the vivid green in the sunshine is not captured to great effect in the photograph but I've included it anyway.
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