You might have noticed there was no Friday blog last week. Author Laura Posted on MaMaCategories Uncategorized Tags art advice, artist, coronavirus, studio diary Leave a comment on Singalong Not to worry… This sort of photography is a job every artist has to do at some point and, dare I say, one that’s perfectly suited to a period of self-isolation.
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This week on Ask An Artist we’ve dragged Mr B out from behind the sound system to explain how to take good copy photos of artwork without breaking the budget on photographic equipment, or setting up a fancy lighting rig. All I’ll need to stockpile are ground almonds, eggs, double cream, plus a ‘good’ brandy and we are home dry. A bit of investigation in my mum’s handwritten recipe book does come up with a pudding based on rice flour which might make that bearable. If push were ever really to come to shove, my large stock of rice flour for my students’ Japanese woodblock prints would make for some extremely worthy and dull bowls of perfectly edible gloop.
As an artist, I’m in the fairly happy position of a studio packed with materials that can, at a pinch, be changed into hand sanitiser and loo roll. Leaving the impromptu musical performance in the loos, I saw the effects of panic buying. Self-isolation comes more naturally to some than to others…
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I’m part proud that I’ve dredged the poem up from my primary school memory in full and part horrified that I now go into auto-recite at the sight of a tap. My vote’s for Jolene (that song has seen me through many a tight karaoke corner in Japan over the years) except I’m stuck with reciting Auden’s Night Mail. Complete strangers, debating and trying out the benefits of Jolene versus Daisy, Daisy, Love Shack or The Circle of Life. It was lovely, stumbling into scene worthy of Richard Curtis. I went in and found singing in progress as a mix of shoppers exchanged hand washing songs. It’s very quiet up in ‘one of the largest indoor spaces in Europe’ that is our local shopping centre, except it seems in the loos. Many are already starting to feel the effects of cancelled or under-attended shows and exhibitions and there’s no doubt that it is going to be a very difficult year ahead for everyone on many levels. Most of my friends and colleagues are, like me, either self-employed or work in creative industries that rely on an audience.
It’s hard to write a blog this week without mentioning coronavirus which, as I type, I see is already embedded in the spell check of my software.
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