Equate - Lesley’s thoughts on the seminar…
13 May 2009
‘We had a seminar booked for the evening of April 30th at ICE. One good thing about working alongside someone is sharing the workload and being able to bounce ideas off each other. Being a visual artist often means working in isolation so for me this was a definite bonus.
I spent some time going through my journal and trying to put my thoughts into some sort of coherent structure. This took time but I actually found it deeply cathartic. A bit like clearing the loft out - deciding what to keep, what to put to one side and what to throw out! Afterwards I had a clarity of thought that I’d been lacking beforehand. Over the next few days I revisited my notes and streamlined down further so that what I was left with was a clear and concise record of events in all it’s true colours. This was an excellent way of self evaluating and far more useful than if someone else had sat and conducted a formal affair.
Felt the seminar went well although always a personal challenge as you want people to take something away with them. It was useful for me to communicate our journey to a different audience - I just hope that our choice of language enabled an insight into the true nature of what has taken place. One regret is that I didn’t include any images of my work (a few people mentioned this afterwards). I had purposefully not done so as I wanted to challenge the notion of an ‘end product’. However providing images would have given people a context and an idea of my starting point. I even have these snazzy leaflets that could have been included in the evaluation material and would have served this purpose really well - dah!
The audience offered some excellent feed back and suggestions for future investigation. One point that resonated was whether we should revisit the aim that we initially set, which was ‘To investigate the natural relationship between Art and Mathematics’.......this is an assumption. Maybe there isn’t a natural relationship… ? ‘
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