| Struggling 1974,
Colour, 12 minutes, 1” master |
Struggling symbolically refers to the difficulty of surviving, funding and producing innovative work as a young artist. I was working in an expensive medium beyond the protection of a College environment in a cultural situation where a new medium provided no supporting structures. It also refers to the particular technical difficulties of making this piece. We took as
our theme the opening words of Genesis - surely that must have been
a struggle too! As a structure we took this biblical creation myth as
a metaphor for the individual act of creation. These early works were
still developing the collaborative relationship between the two participants,
and in performing an improvisation together it was necessary to structure
each work around a common shared theme that defined the intellectual/emotional
“mood” or “psychic space”. We therefore chose
external “themes” or “processes” as triggers
for our collective sensibilities to trigger off.
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