5th March
So i was too tired to write much more about Munich that we saw yesterday (day 6).I will say that the most exciting part of our day was that there was SNOW!!! i know, i'm over excited (this happens a lot with me)... but it's snow!! (in large amounts, in a big park!) and i haven't seen snow since maybe 2000 in the USA when i was 8 so i have a reason to be super excited about it (or that could just my justification for acting like a little kid...just go with it?)I discovered that your first instinct when you haven't seen snow in a really long time is to run through it and infest everyone with your excitement. I don't know if you've guess but the next instinct is to start throwing snow balls!! The people just sitting on benches were watching us, and people walking by paused to look at what we were doing and laughed or smiled - maybe because they take the snow for granted, so seeing people of an average age of 21 playing in a park with the snow would probably be something amusing to watch. I'm glad we gave a few people a reason to smile early one ordinary monday morning. I'm also glad i got to pelt everyone with snow balls!
On the morning of day 7 we got a little taste of home when we went to visit Helen Britton (whose Aussie!) and David Bielander (whose not Aussie, but was still lovely!). I really liked their work but the thing that kept drawing my attention was the way that Helen and David stored all their bits and pieces at their work benches [we weren't allowed to take photos, but i did some sketches, which i will post when i can scan them at home]
Helen, being between shows had laid out her work on the bench. She had little aluminium trays with gems and stones. Then she had other little trays with buttons, metal scraps, wire scraps and what i think were acrylic scraps. She had a wooden block with files stuck into it. There were cans filled with tools and other, taller bits and pieces. My favourite was a red shelf that had probably 50 or so draws filled with i don't know what, but i could see colour and shapes peeking out of the transparent plastic. It was organised and everything had a place.
David, on the other hand, was working on a few pieces and things were strewn all over his large bench. Tools, finished work, work that was in the middle of completion, the pins that belong in his koi fish were sitting colour-coded in their plastic trays; it was obviously an artist at work - it reminded me of my own bench at home! My favourite of David's space was when i saw some cardboard boxes underneath his bench with all sorts of labels that I couldn't read except two: material chaos and inspiration chaos. I just loved that, it really fit with his practise too. The fact that he knows what he wants to make and then finds the material to do it. All the inspiration and material knowledge he has converges on different things for different ideas.
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