Improvisation, time, repetition, return, simultaneity, chaos, calm.
I always think about the site. If space is required, I either make it, or take it.
It plays an important role: one method is slow writing, remixing and writing text with fiber-based materials (yarns, cloth, printed clothing). I also have a writing practice - sometimes bad poetry, most often run-on prose, and rarely, but if I’m in the right mood and am lucky, text that connects what I’m reading or experiencing together.
Curiosity, and serious play.
Artistic practice is necessary. Research is a life practice. If art and artists can reap the rewards of what comes with being recognised as research practices within institutions such as the academic, the cultural, or otherwise, then so be it: though art transcends and moves beyond these institutional containers and qualifying bodies.
