Mandy Brannan

PAPER [PYPR]

Friday, July 5, 2019

Where does inspiration come from?

As I remake and update my 3 editions of 'Pressed' I am pondering....
* shall I make a 4th edition?
* what shall I write about?
* what will be the overall theme?

Sometimes I amaze myself when inspiration hits me.....recently I spent a week with my daughter, over from America, visiting many, many gallery shows around London hoping to find something to inspire me.
I always seem to find ideas from non papermaking/book arts shows. This time it's different again but still connected to my daughters' visit....

A week with my creative daughter always covers a plethora of discussions of visual subjects. At one point she mentioned a music video by the group Ok-Go.


and then now, a week later .....while pondering the thoughts above....I watched a few more of their videos.
I realized - 'yes' - I remember the video where they used walking gym machines.
Then I watched this one....

                                          

My OMG moment....' Colour' that's it......I am known for my pigmentation and colourific papers....
 Pressed will be about Handmade Paper - Colours

Festival of Stuff UCL






Festival of Stuff

Institute of Making
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Back for the 3rd time.....love this place - lovely staff and great workshop facility.

Again - both workshops filled up in seconds! and a great 
bunch of students.

Crammed a 5 hour workshop into just 2 hours.......organized chaos - but it worked!!! again....phew