Embodying the pathway towards Pink Granite (Part Two)
On the road to making Pink Granite I had one more collision with Redhair and Daffodil Friend through an adaptation for the stage. If you didn’t catch it first time around on the blog last year, you can read about that here. You can also view the edited final performance on my new youtube channel.
Past practice intrudes into new practice, settling like dust after a blast in a quarry. Creative confrontations like dynamic explosions occur, after which a potentially dangerous aftermath with accompanying paranoia proceed. Stories and life experiences project themselves onto new ones. The collecting and cutting are precarious and potentially fatal. One often falls over the edge. Both the year-long project group experience and the semester-long pilot production were not without these elements. It’s all part of the creative mix and challenge.
Let’s just breathe and think about stones and being underneath a tree canopy for a moment.
Reflecting on the Telling the Journey film, which is where I began these consecutive posts, I can see the intricate weave of life experience and the layers of strata shifting, sliding, erupting and splitting when I am in a room with a creative group and a task. I have worked with this never-ending story and its process over many years, and it still gives up its gifts and unknowns, and for that I am eternally grateful. Like how certain tides on the Sefton coast reveal ancient footprints, Pink Granite, its prequel/sequel, I cannot decide which, reveals the footprints of my paternal ancestors and the imprint of my creative work along with a revealed Welsh identity I had to explore. You can read about this here.
But if you are still with me you may want to know the process of making Pink Granite and you can access that by signing up for my updates.
I hope the films you can access through the sign up speak for themselves. In the later ones there are extracts from Pink Granite in its early stages.
Below are the titles of the short films that demonstrate the creative process towards Pink Granite. You will need a password to access so please sign up to my updates here.
- Sea Potato Mam Goes on a Journey
- Falling Down
- A nun digging and dancing
- The Stone Baby
- Times and Seasons
- Layers, Cracks and Seams
- Standing on the Edge with an Umbrella
- Entering The Green Circle
- Entering The Holy Place
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