Lecture 4 - Inextricable Links Between Landscape and the Artwork?

Today we talked about ancient earth works. Such as, crop circles, the Cerne Giant, and Stone Henge. I come from a village near Westbury, so it was really interesting to see about Westbury White Horse as I can see it from my garden! When you live that close to a landmark like this, you tend to take it for granted that other people may find it interesting. I'm also relatively close to Stone Henge, so those doesn't really phase me much either. However I would really like to see the Cerne Giant, and the Spiral Jetty is impressive too.

Lecture 3 - Body Modifications?

This weeks lecture is on body modifications, in the form of cybernetics, scarification, tattoos, etc. We looked at Margot Lovejoy, John Cage, Marina Abramovic amongst others. We also looked at Dr. Gunther Von Hagens, and his work (www.bodyworlds.com) involving dead people, embalming them and removing their skin, and posing them for display. This was disgusting.

Body modification (and decoration) is quite a broad subject, but doesn't really relate to textiles. I probably wouldn't use todays lecture in my work. Apart from possibly the idea of tattoos, as they are decorative.