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Notes from 'HOLLOW SHIPS AND OTHER VESSELS' (E17 Art Trail - no.40)

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April 03, 2024

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Greetings from the Hollow Ships!

July 03, 2021

Thanks so much to everyone who came to visit us today! It was great to hear about so many other people taking part. I really hope we can get out for a bit next week to visit some other venues. And who knew that combing ceramics, white curtains and excited toddlers could be, well, a little bit nerve racking? They don’t seem to mention this anywhere in the parenting books. It has been a VERY h ectic few - weeks? Months? Preparing for this but it has been great fun so far. We’re closed tomorrow for Adam’s 5th birthday party (go away rain) but will be opening the ships again next Saturday. I'll write more about the project in the week. I'll probably also use this as an excuse to write about other things that I feel are connected to it. Right, I have a dinosaur birthday cake to make... e17arttrail.co.uk | yaaritmechany.com | Hollow Ships Audio

Leave the gun. Take the Cannoli. Also, Robert Lowell

July 06, 2021

I don't know why I thought about that line on the school run this morning! I know there have been multiple attempts to analyse and understand the line within the broader context of the Godfather narrative because, well, I just googled it. My overly simplistic reading is something like 'rescue what good you can from a horrible situation' or 'eat desert as a coping mechanism' (I'm speaking as someone who ate half a leftover birthday cake yesterday.) They wont get me a PhD in Film Studies but hopefully They're will buy me a few lines here. I don't know why I just read this paragraph back in a Meg Ryan 'You've Got Mail' voice... Some of my recent Cannoli's are the American poets: Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, and William H. Matchett. I can't pretend that I fully understand them but I find that when I read any one of them I get that tingly/excited 'I should write a poem!' feeling, often quickly followed by that tired/blank page ...

Grief is the Thing With Trucks

July 04, 2021

And specifically 'Independent 149 Mid' Trucks (Skateboarding, not Eddie Stobart).. but I'm getting ahead of myself. On Friday I quickly wrote up some notes about our project and printed them so that they'd be to hand whenever visitors arrived . If you're unlucky enough to drop by when Yaarit is on an Aldi run, as happened on Saturday, they really are a life saver (for both of us) because.. well, this is all I can tell you about the vases; "Yes, they're amazing aren't they!... No, I've no idea how she does it.." I can't make stuff and I don't know how stuff gets made! At the last minute I wrote a paragraph about the audio explaining that, among other things, it was ' a meditation on grief.' I hadn't really planned to mention grief but it suddenly felt important to write it down. I think my hesitancy had something to do with the fact that I'm generally pretty squeamish about 'confessional art', but it feels so ...