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End of lockdown blog
Helen Stevenson Lockdown has been ended for a while now and we are returning to a new normal. I am still furloughed from work and although life is resuming some sense of normality I have been able to go to my studio space more often. I have the space to continue painting with a number…
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Thoughts
She’d Work – Lock Down15 paintings later Lock down means staying at home though a key member of my family is terminally ill and it is also vital that we are able to support her and help out with medication and care. My partner is also self employed and we are both unable to work.…
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Reflections/snoitcelfeR
Reflecting, a good thing to do on a wet day. Turning things around and trying to look at them differently. They are not always what they seem! I have started trying to work out how my proposed exhibition work advances my practice, it is a linking or drawing together different parts of my practice. The…
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Porcupine messages
Each day seems like a message about my time here – the water in the ponds disappear, and then appear again – and then disappear for good –Marking the shadow – or just seeing if the green is different in the dips. I need to get one set of photos soon – so I can…
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Photo diary
My daily photographs are a diary of getting to know this place/space. I am gradually seeing more details – the photographs show the details that I have been paying attention to each day I think about ways to overlay the edge of the pond back on the ground – as a drawing, using fertilizer, salt,…
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A parable maybe
I rushed back to S when I figured out how serious this virus was. Grabbing the food that was left for me, I went straight to the farm. I have often stayed here, but never under these weird and stressful conditions. I began to walk around the 80 acres for hours every day. I discovered…
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March 21
I thought that I had a brilliant idea for a way to respond to this current state of self-quarantine. I would use Facetime, and ‘Walk and Talk into Spring’ on the land with various people. As we talked over the telephone, we could each see where the other person was. I planned to walk around…
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March 19
I can’t think when I have been so relieved to be back in Saskatchewan. It is a bit irrational, but I just feel more settled and safe here. And I arrived to a box of food waiting for me.
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Everything is known
June 1st, 2020 How can I move beyond the known? It seems that life has been too prosaic recently. Even though I have completed filming for the first part of the exhibition, I feel a strange lack of engagement. Probably, when I get to editing, it will return. Little observations seem outstandingly important. A blackcap…
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Bright yellow=happiness
Sunday May 24th Been working on my exhibition piece for the last two weeks. This morning I did a trial film with my partner as stand-in. I have a few problems to solve. Clothing for one, with my gut reaction saying bright yellow. I was thinking about canaries in cages and down mines to test…
