July is always a strange month here. Some people express their culture through the construction and deconstruction, of huge pyres - bonfires - which are built over a period of months and then burned to the ground in the course of one evening. For me, these terms (construction and deconstruction) mean something different. They are more than a means of critical analysis as they apply directly to the material world and to my 'creative culture' which is the making and un-making of objects in pursuit of understanding how things come together and apart. Inevitably, failure is a part of this process. There is something interesting about not giving up even when things don't work out. Something that materialises in an unexpected way is not a failure if you accept that its appearance is more appealing than preconceived ideas about its end point. Allowing these material failures to find their own way, to exist as they want to be, enables an evolution of forms which don't need to be finished to be understood. They don't need to be perfect to be appreciated. Aren't we all flawed, in our own way? I am happy to keep failing when exploration and experimentation are part of the process of being.
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