by Ruby Taylor | Aug 1, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst: artist in residence
Wild & Hairy Hay Rope. The making is nearing completion out here in the barn at Wakehurst, in my Meadow Weave residency. The looping technique I’m using with the hay rope I’ve been making is usually done under tension. Doing it on the flat as I am is...
by Ruby Taylor | Jul 25, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst: artist in residence
Take Two. I knew with a kind of resigned certainty, even before I reached home as I was driving back from Wakehurst the day it all fell apart, that there was nothing for it but to start all over again. So here I am, out at the barn (my studio for the duration), with...
by Ruby Taylor | Jul 18, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst: artist in residence
Falling Apart. It was inevitable. I’ve come to recognise this stage and am learning to tolerate it. To even welcome it as an integral and probably necessary part of the creative process. Perhaps it would be more worrying if the falling apart didn’t happen-...
by Ruby Taylor | Jul 13, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst: artist in residence
Making it While the Sun Shines. I genuinely feel like the Miller’s daughter in the story Rumpelstitskin. I’ve a massive pile of cut hay on one side, and a long snaking hay rope on the other, which I’m looping together to form a structure. I reckon I’ve made 70 metres...
by Ruby Taylor | Jul 10, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst: artist in residence
The Peace of Wild Things. Driving to Wakehurst this morning for my artist in residency, on my car radio I hear bellicose Middle Eastern leaders holding forth, and reports of awful police investigations here in the UK. I’m overwhelmed by it, by feelings of despair and...