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The time making something complicated that you never show but without which you could not have made the simple thing that\u2019s good<\/p>\n
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The time gathering references that sit around and come out in the work in a different form<\/p>\n
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The time of:<\/p>\n
Looking for a new studio<\/p>\n
Sourcing and buying new materials<\/p>\n
Making applications<\/p>\n
Making money that isn\u2019t art<\/p>\n
Complying with institutional requirements<\/p>\n
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The time in the studio sitting and staring, thinking. The time in the studio sitting and not thinking<\/p>\n
The time spent on process that is visible in the work<\/p>\n
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The time of feeling lost and the time of finding focus<\/p>\n
The time of intense interest in something and the time of disillusionment with it<\/p>\n
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The time of new pencils<\/p>\n
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The time reading<\/p>\n
The time writing<\/p>\n
The time looking at the work of others<\/p>\n
The time looking at work like an art critic and cultural historian<\/p>\n
The time looking at work as a craftsperson<\/p>\n
The time looking at work as a painter<\/p>\n
The time making coffee<\/p>\n
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The work of making time for time making work<\/p>\n
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The time playing<\/p>\n
The time of deciding to turn something upside down<\/p>\n
The time of turning something upside down<\/p>\n
The time of repainting the wall white\/orange\/pink\/grey\u2026.. so it\u2019s possible to see what\u2019s happening the work<\/p>\n
The time of finding the detritus more interesting than the work itself<\/p>\n
The time it takes to understand what the good bit is in what has been made<\/p>\n
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The weight of the time that is the productive time<\/p>\n
The familiarity of the time of failures<\/p>\n
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The time of tuning colours in<\/p>\n
The time of discovering a new palette<\/p>\n
The time of losing confidence in a palette<\/p>\n
The time of deliberately choosing colours I don\u2019t like<\/p>\n
The time of thrilling colours<\/p>\n
The time of the vibration of colours together<\/p>\n
The time of seasoning colours, acid, salty, sweet<\/p>\n
The time of feeling colours and their surfaces<\/p>\n
The time of historic references of colours<\/p>\n
The time of new, more expensive and intense colours<\/p>\n
The time of fluorescence<\/p>\n
The time of making something again but in a different colour, and how the meaning changes completely<\/p>\n
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The work of making time for time making work<\/p>\n
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The time of delighting in flashy trash<\/p>\n
The time of delighting in deceit<\/p>\n
The time of adding more and more<\/p>\n
The time of taking out everything that doesn\u2019t need to be there<\/p>\n
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The time of:<\/p>\n
Looking for a new studio<\/p>\n
Sourcing and buying new materials<\/p>\n
Making applications<\/p>\n
Throwing things away<\/p>\n
The time of packing up for an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time arranging transport<\/p>\n
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The time of losing track of time<\/p>\n
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The time right in it<\/p>\n
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The time thinking about flatness<\/p>\n
The time thinking about illusion<\/p>\n
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The time thinking about repetition<\/p>\n
The time thinking about layers<\/p>\n
The time avoiding technical bravura<\/p>\n
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The time of installing an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of thinking about fixings<\/p>\n
The time of complying with Health & Safety<\/p>\n
The time of disagreement<\/p>\n
The time of reaching agreement<\/p>\n
The time of rearrangement<\/p>\n
The time documenting an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of publicising an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of talking about an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of the viewer, viewing.<\/p>\n
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The time of deinstalling an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of reflecting on an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of wondering if the work is irrelevant in the current context<\/p>\n
The time of losing interest in works once they have been exhibited<\/p>\n
The time of new ideas generated by an exhibition<\/p>\n
The time of looking for new opportunities<\/p>\n
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The time of somehow always coming back to the same interests but in a different form<\/p>\n
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The time of:<\/p>\n
Looking for a new studio<\/p>\n
Sourcing and buying new materials<\/p>\n
Making applications<\/p>\n
Throwing things away<\/p>\n
The time of packing up<\/p>\n
Finding transport<\/p>\n
Moving things to storage while you look for a new studio<\/p>\n
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The time of collaboration<\/p>\n
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The time of being alone<\/p>\n
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The quality of time of making work that is of no time, no age, is of itself and always available to step into out of the passage of life.<\/p>\n
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Lucy Renton (April 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art & Time The time making something complicated that you never show but without which you could not have made the simple thing that\u2019s good The time gathering references that sit around and come out in the work in a different form The time of: Looking for a new studio Sourcing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1463,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/temporalities\/files\/2023\/10\/Juliette-scaled.jpeg\")
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