Notes from my meeting with Tri Scott:

• When choosing materials to work with often the most interesting relationships you can make are with materials are ones where you don't fully trust that material....
• Makes you feel uncomfortable
• Easy/difficult to express these feelings
• Being a function with a material
• LOVE is very important when dealing with a specific material - you get closer to it, expressed through you choice of gesture/interaction, bodily experience.
• A successful work is one where the viewer can respond to the love and attention you have payed to this particular material, and a work that you yourself are proud of.
• We choose ceratin materials to work with becasue we cannot resist them.
• It is a personal/physical choice and we need to allow our mind to go for the ride.
• RHYTHM: these works can become musical and rhythmic through the fluid interaction and repetition of gesture.
• You start to understand the material with your body and mind.
• In a physical and spatial way.
• Realise simple things eg. Gravity - the physical world.
• When DOING you gain more of an appreciation for that material.
• Forming connections/ making sense of something/ feeling your way into the relationship.
• You learn to understand somthing really simple in a more profound way.
• Grasped something, and it becomes a part of you to understand that.
• The drawing process: Touching on things without pinning them down.

Serindipity (feeling sensation, magical, an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident, the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident)

• Looking for little things that strike me.
• Possibility of moments
• Looking for things that jump out at me - Litterally light up in my eyes.
• Looking at it and knowing an characterisitic of that material, something you can do with it.

• Putting these feelings into words is difficult.
• You can see them inside oyurself
• Just like memories from the past these relationships (bodily) are similar, they are embedded in you
• Memories/ decisions come out of your body, they come out in a different physical form.
• These material relationships/ interactions are an interesting way of knowing.
• You can set aside the knowing of you ind and a different space opens upwhich is more inarticulate/ more bodily/ clearer to you on a physical, more personal level.
• Understanding something about something
• It becomes tangible - you gain a deep knowing.
• Have CONFIDENCE
• The world - Every molecule has a vital energetic place: we are these molecules so we need to change and gropw and do our own thing.

Further decelopments/ things to do...

• Finding more poetic writings - simple but meaningfuland captures ideas in a cocise way.
• Collecting phrases/ Pinterest (notes and images) - Gain more experience of these found images and phrases by making work that incorporates/ responds to them..
• Try works I do in relationship to space and dwellings
• Pay more attention to the space I am working in, thinking about corners, cupboards or even excluding things (on purpose).
• BOOKS: The Man Who Tasted Shapes"......."The Poetics of Space," by Gaston Bachelard.
• Louise Bourgeois