Oct 29th Monday

Despite raucous weekend, got some studio time in - consider the above finished - did work on the notebook and the Ripley scroll. Plus a couple of other pix are shaping up.

Today being Monday went life drawing. Fabienne modelled (she is the model for the pic above) and I took carbon paper and a dead biro - drew blind, not making any marks, used the first carbon to examine and elaborate on the marks I'd got there and on the third paper,(= second carbon), was simply a marriage of the two. 

Explained this to Fabienne in the break as she could see me drawing but not having a product. She was interested in the process. As I was telling her about it I inwardly reflected on the hunger of the pencil to make marks - think this has been a topic for a while, the servant/master relationship only between tool and user - =considered the nature of the empty biro, the spent tool, the vacuous object etc. etc. Half way though the next drawing the dead biro, dead these many years and only kept for romantic association and as a book mark, dead as a dodo, decided to revive itself. Bloody annoying. And odd - weather is freezing, the MJC space heated by little electric fires.

Usual distractions. Pierre decided with Fabiennes permission to take photos - not a practice I approve of but she'd OK'd it - Julian was angry and  made it clear, tensions rise - the usual huffers and puffers and scratchers and shifters we out in force but I kept cool (ish). Think now its because Im coming down with a cold. Ears and head ringing, strange distances. Lala.

Did some life/carbon drawing into notebook. Hope that wasn't a mistake. Fear I will appear to be drawn to the gimcrack rather than the worthy.