The Friends of the War Memorial Park
02 September 2009
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As part of the Equate project Lesley, has been using the A+M blog to write about her thoughts and ideas….
‘Spoke to ‘The Friends of the War Memorial Park’ a few weeks ago at The Council House about how I wanted to investigate/interpret the park drawing reference to mathematical concepts. The whole idea takes a certain amount of creative thought I suppose, and this made me reflect on how effectively I communicated this. How do you communicate your creative thoughts/processes to people who have little experience of The Arts? I’m very aware that careful choice of language can win people over and aid understanding, whereas the language of creativity can often have the opposite effect - suppose the answer is trying to get that balance right. Hope I was successful….
Anyway my proposals were well received and I’ve started visiting the park quite regularly to investigate what is there. Armed with my sketchbook and a camera I’m often to be seen lurking in bushes and poking around in the undergrowth. Spent a good deal of time lying in the grass on my last visit, and since Adam wasn’t available my daughter Elisha kindly agreed to come along too. I love the way that younger people can sometimes see things in a different way and with vast expanses of grass, looking for possibilities with new eyes is vital.
I feel as though I’m at an important organisational stage. Gathering all this information together into a coherent line of thought, and then thinking about logistics. Also continuing to do lots of reading. It’s a good place to be.‘