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ARTIST BLOG - The Process: fresh like a new lover by Zoe Catherine Kendall



Welcome to THE PROCESS - a creative dialogue between you, me and the world. This dialogue is streaming from my newfangled blog 'Zoe via..?' which can be found at .... Below are some early post excerpts to set the scene for a new audience. The aim is to engage. Together we can do this.


‘Fresh like a new lover, this blog of mine, all new and spangly, so what's the deal? Nothing much, just thought i'd share some thoughts. I have this sometimes inconvenient habbit of thinking, and an even worse habbit of wanting to communicate that process! Actually i'm lying, i love it, translating what i see through all the filters i've accumulated in my modest amount of living (quarter of a century, give or take a few days), and then imagining it through someone else's eyes, and trying then to see it from no particular perspective at all, if that's even possible. Experiences, encounters, happenings, all these things can be as significant or as neutral as the eyes that observe them choose to define.


What do you see? What do i see? How does it make either of us feel?


In this blog i want to both glorify and strip away those filters we use to interpret. I want to hear what other people think. I want to share.’


The conception of this blog emerged from a project i am currently working on entitled 'Self Series', a heightened process of self reflection born out of a few significant (insignificant) events in my life (in yours)...




‘It’s the treatment of a narrative which delves into experiences of living to facilitate a sense of self. Nothing new, something we all do every day, live. It is a piece of live art because it came to be and continues to progress through the simple process of living. It is both an organic and a self conscious or self reflective process. I am creating a 'book' to go alongside a series of images and films, which all pay homage to a series of happenings that took place at a significant moment in my life. A momentous occassion you might say...’





‘At the time everything felt imbued with meaning, there was much to feel, much to learn and much to contemplate. Emotions were heightened, thought processes magnified, and i was acutely aware of myself. This much hasn't changed but time has plodded on, distanced, re evaluated and added new filters for interpretation. Through the book i am creating, i choose to share a series of images in the form of photographs, ink drawings, words, emails - evidence of a previous time which is now open to review, and a record of absurdly unimportant details which without some kind of glorification, would otherwise fade into nothing but dim recollections. The life of an artist, perhaps..’


Watch this space to participate in THE PROCESS, and ask yourself, how is your art-work-life going these days?



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