Saturday, August 11, 2007

Bye bye from Dog Betty














After a final few days of videoing / performing as Dog Betty, my time in this residency is over now. Would like to say thanks to everyone for all your feedback and support. I have shot enough footage for three Dog Betty movies now, which I will start editing after I get back and intend to post on YouTube. Best of luck to the rest of you for the remainder of the residency and I hope some more of you will continue this blog.
Birgitta

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Dog Betty is making progress

Cut the Dog Betty model head into pieces and made patterns.














Tried on bits and pieces during the process. Have found that physically making this head has made me do a lot of thinking. Am about two days behind where I wanted to be. Finally finished the Dog Betty head today. It has changed quite a bit in the process. Perfectionism has been slowing me down, but I have just had to accept that she isn't exactly how I planned, but has evolved her own personality.

Feel like Saint Birgitta of Completion now that it is finally finished!

Sunday, August 5, 2007







Sunday and we are not at the Letherby--- and

I wonder what the work is doing while we are away……..

If my drawing installation has fallen / shifted been scrumpled by a passer-by - or from stress of its hanging or from the humidity or the very slight movement of the building itself…

Today I'm at home - doing paper work, errands, preparations etc- and for the next four days I wont be able to get into the gallery -

I shall be teaching and visiting my supervisor.. I am anticipating (hoping) that while I'm away my drawing / installation will be changing / interacting with the people and the space… so that when I return next Friday I will find that the work I left will have been changed, and I will have a different arrangement of materials with which to continue my interaction and dialogue.

The drawing began as part of a performance for a presentation to the

"Here Tomorrow" research group ( March 2007) - now I have replaced it- moved it into another space, and then when it has come unstuck and fallen from this second positioning, I have allowed its falling to direct my next replacing.. so that the space and the conditions of the place are influencing the drawings development.