1st workshop, friday 10th june.

Unfortunately, I was unable to go to this session due to illness. My plan was to simply get to know the patient, through dialogue and discussion, and small art-based activities ( like blind drawing etc ). This session was intended to be fairly relaxed, a kind of 'getting to know you' session, with an introduction to the project, and an introduction to one another. It was going to be collaboratively informative, and the art-based tasks were going to facilitate the conversation about traces and objects, and act as documentation.

The fact that I have missed this session has left me fairly distraught, and I hope I'll be able to make up for it next week, though our session will be fairly rushed. In the event that I don't get a partner 'for myself', I've been briefed on another patient/student partnership whom I can join, as she ( June, a patient ) has quite a lot of stories for two outcomes.

I've been told by her partner, that June is not a confident artist, but enjoys galleries and looking at art, and is overall quite intrigued and happy to be apart of this project. She mentions the fact that she was an evacuee during the war often, without mentioning the details of this experience — this is something that I'd like to explore and understand, but I wouldn't want to be too intrusive as I don't know her.

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If I do have my own partner next week, my plan for now is to bring in lots of universal objects that I can use as inspiration for that workshop — household objects that inspire conversation and will help with the processes. For example, if I bring in bottles or containers in which we drink from — teapots, teacup, milk bottle, beer bottle, etc — I should be able to inspire dialogue between us. This will, hopefully mean we can get to know each other in a small period of time, and have enough to work on for the workshop — for both cyanotype or casting. Hopefully, this will make our partnership be more at ease and less forced, because without a small introduction to one another, we'd not be working particularly collaboratively, as I'd feel like I was using them for source information.