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what is a pain threshold?

is it the limit to which you will tolerate pain before it's unbearable?

is a low pain threshold indicative of someone very tolerant or is that a high pain threshold?

notes to self

a couple of days of scribbles

still looking sorting thoughts and feelings

corners are interesting

there are no corners in nature?

jumping around and not in travelling in a linear exploration

although i'm working in lines

reflects my internal stuff at the moment

Threshold III

Threshold. 

These are photos of Threshold from a few years ago (it's been lurking for a good while). I did lots of drawings of doorways and rubbings of gates but I always wanted to get past the representational and symbolic constraints, purify it somehow. 

I came back to it by photographing signs on gates denoting thresholds and boundaries but this fuelled my frustration. It occurred to me that this precipice or sublime sense of threshold, being on the verge of an idea, is what I want to investigate but how? 

Threshold II

( Tentative research for my thresholds project). These stakes mean trouble. The shrinking of green space here in Totnes. Or the encroaching of developed land.  Either way we
won't roam free in this field for much 
longer. The dog doesn't understand such subtle signifiers of 'threshold'.  

Five minutes.

New Year

I'm excited.  I have dropped a day from my job and so I am galvanised, determined and full of ideas.  I promised myself I would blog every Friday come rain or shine, artist block or blank or blues.  Now there is room to breath and create.

Some lines and more lines from a morning walk....

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P.S.
One thing that I need to discuss - I started re-reading Steppenwolf over the holidays.  It's something I tried as a weird, depressed 17 year old and couldn't cope with it.   Apparently I still can't cope with it. The dark beginning coincided with my own grey, bleak reaction to life at the difficult time of Christmas (an annual affliction for me) so I sank deep down, horribly low.  I kept reading and I'm almost near the end, now completely enchanted and it's making me want to talk about it.  Has anyone experienced this bizarre and fascinating book? Is anyone nuts enough to have actually read it?!!!!

Barcelona

 There is always so much to absorb in Barcelona.  I have only ever been without my kids before and this time, with them, I had a much different experience.  Not always a smooth one either.......
Their agenda clashes with my hunger for any galleries or exhibitions.  How can it be that I have produced two people who 'can't be bothered' with a contemporary art gallery housing no less than five crisp, edgy shows of zeitgeist and aesthetic splendour.  We found a common ground outside, however. The skateboarders.  A constant pulse of moving wheels, tricks and slamming boards.  The kids watched in wonder at these hero-acrobats while my own eyes wandered around the marks left by an obsessive, repetitive movement.

Threshold

Work in progress responding to gateways saying stuff like:


                                                                     No Junk Mail
No Parking


                                       Beware DOGS

No entry
                                                                     private
                               DO NOT ENTER



Leave no leaflets                                 WELCOME


                                                                     no entry
Please close the gate



(thought if I made a little note on here it might force me to get on with the images...)

archeology of a mark

What is contained in a mark.  Unintentional, intentional, expression, damage, rhythm, pattern or even an essence or trace of the maker of the mark.

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