‘Creative Art Writing’ from Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanties @SGSAH_ Cohort Development Fund Residential at Hosptialfield House, Arbroath, 22-23rd April 2016
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Day 1
Object 1 (The Gallery)
Nonproducable, registered. Lean over fat. No. No fat. All lean. Linseed. Transparent glazes. Linseed for darker colours, the tones brown slowly. Unloaded. Not enough noise. Hues have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. To look and feel good. Biomorph. “It’s fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.” A luminous bloc of sensations held in place, not by bone or skeletal structure, but by a framework. Tea tree oil? Dressed. Avoid black as undercoat. Overdetermined. Puffy. Applying pressure sufficient to ensure a true and continuous contact on the surface to leave a trace. Lights change colour once or twice. Baby Oil. Stroking a stroked surface. Incontrovertible facts. Subtle yet fresh. Glee-mote of pliant materials. An increase of pressure to 980.7 millibar causes vibrations, (but will caused too rough surface.) Marshmallow. The principal graph of the brush wear as a function of brush pressure:
Reproducable, registerable. Lean over fat. No. No fat. All lean. Linseed. Transparent glazes. No linseed for light colours, the tones yellow quickly. Unloaded. Too much noise. Hues have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. To look and feel good. Biomorph. A luminous bloc of sensations. Coconut oil? Dressing. Avoid black as undercoat. Overdetermined/sfumato. Thin. Applying pressure sufficient to ensure a true and continuous contact on the surface to leave a trace. Lights never change colour. Olive Oil. A stroked surface being stroked. Incontrovertible facts. Subtle yet fresh. “I love the sun but don’t have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round.” Glee-mote of pliant materials. An decrease of pressure from 980.7 millibar causes vibrations, (but will not be caused by too smooth surface.) Marshmallow. The principal graph of the brush wear as a function of brush pressure:
Object 2 (The Studio)
Pinched and abandoned. The silver pouch was exotic, available only in Barcelona. Vacuuming the 1% pineapple contents in under a minute at 35 degrees. Filling up a suitcase with 200ml bursts and rationing them for a month or so, making them last out the short summer. Now manufactured in Germany and found in most good retailers. It knows no borders and never runs dry. Removing the last sachet from the fridge, its RFID authorises Ocado to deliver a fresh batch. A vision statement for the European Community Framework Programme 5 for Research and Technological Development (FP 5).
Object 3 (The Library)
Crabb’s Technological Dictionary Vol. II
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Ser – Servant Bell Trigger
On application with mechanical pulley system to alert the Butler, a bell-trigger gives the master of the house power to assemble whenever divined, on ordinary or extraordinary occasions considered advantageous. The trigger connects a wire to pulley or ‘jingo’ at an inclination of twenty-three and one half degrees, from whence it is expeditiously abridged with an amputentur. When unclogged and unencumbered, the amputentur connects with a long digest of three spigots that lean rightward with normal circumstance, to be pulled back on application of the bell ringer itself. With this the Butler and common housemaids act in a more fleeting manner than the Earth itself. The device was adapted for common household use in this precise manner by the inventor d. 1876 leaving a brother: Sir James Crawford.
Te – Telefonivm Britanicvs
The telefonivm Britanicvs ministers to themes and merely material wants of our nature, enabling us to beat upon the world from without directly into the mind, or, indeed to imbibe reason itself. It is possible to determine the civilisation of a people from the study of such morphology, a balance and equilibrium of the forces which animate and constitute such objects viz. – due to the presence of God, the Being of Beings. Telefonivm Britanicvs porticos determines the forms and movements, the features and phenomena of nature are not singular inventions, making their apparitions in material nature for the first time unto strangers, friends and foes. It enables facts: the laws of nature to pass as residuary actions too many and too frivolous to be named.
I remain, &c. &c.
Day 2:
Site Writing
Heya,
The old rug can come up around the windows – it’s soiled chuck it. The window recesses will provide some extra leeway for getting in and out (maintenance). Give it approx. ten feet by ten feet, that’s the min for a decent one. Rip out the wooden panelling in that area. The shutters are crowbarred too. They go to Perth to get sliced and stripped for peel-n-stick reclaimed panelling in the toilets. Cut a 10×10 hole in the floor. (Keep a few panels to cedar line the rim). Bang a scaffold up outside the window so you can pour in the concrete. 3 to 4 inches thick will do for a foundation. Once it’s in, it won’t be going anywhere! When it’s full, it’ll weigh a ton. Put four I beams and two lintels in to be on the safe side.
The plumbing can run on the wall – save getting the bore guy up from Dundee. Take out one of the window panes and gaffa tape it up. Exhaust fan goes in here and plastic u-bend will take it all. You can cable tie the wiring to it. Normally a 240V, 50-amp GFCI is used, but the sockets here seem decent, should do for a 50A breaker. Just fire it in. Gyproc over the backend and no-one will be any the wiser. Stick in sealant and use PVA for splashback. Secondary glazing, with plantations to mask, like the Glamis Castle job.
Pull out the fire, it goes in garden in the middle parachute tent with all the others. Take the statue from there and put it right in the middle of the room. The fireplace can come out too. Put it in my van (sister needs a new worktop). There’s a nice Dimplex Pro Chassis that will be big enough to take the chill of the air. Get the mirror down and screw it on the ceiling about the tub. If you jam the window it won’t steam up too bad.
Gypsum the whole wall flush, plaster and then whack up the Timorous Beasties New York City toile. Fire the plasma screen on top – keep the cables nice n tidy, hidden down the back of the flush wall. Change the splash screen from the default with the new kde taped on the back. System settings -> Workspace Theme -> Splash Screen -> Africology
Get they chaise lounges vanned to Kirkton of Glenisla. Croupier knows where they’re headed. The wasssafaces on the ceiling, they trap the damp and will get all mouldy so chip them. Be careful though, they’re worth a few quid. Stick in some LED downlighters, the ones that change colour & keep a few panels clear for the wireless speakers. Take the curtains off the wall and cut them into 12×6 in. strips. They want them for throw pillowcases for the bridie museum in Forfar. Screw the snowboards on the biggest wall. And the heated towel rail (next to the socket, short cable).
The bookshelf goes right round the door. The Dandy and Beanos (wallpaper paste some pages onto the shelves and cover the whole door with them. Try to get Bash Street Kids in there). The Fishs Eddy merch goes here. Take the other one back to the brick. If there aren’t bricks, stick some in. Leave it messy. Then bang up the sign with the lightbulbs in – the Sol one. It’s a “wet room” so lino the floor, the tiles come out from the tub 2 feet or you run out. Then the old lino.
I’m on site first thing Thurs.
Best, B.D.
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We both really enjoyed the detox tank which are inclusive as part of your access and made the weekend even more of a treat. – amazing value!
On the second day I bought two coffees from the bar. Made my own pizza! All the staff were very attentive. 🙂
online booking was very easy food was as always lovely the only thing was soaking in the jackozi and it was very very cold as I was up and down shutting the window maybe having a self closeing window mite be a good idea
– good burger although £17.99 for the ‘african’ breakfast was a bit steep
Gret experience!!!!!!
