Gwithian Chapel Residency

Day 9

Today felt like a shift.

I have removed a lot from the space. The square frames have gone, along with many of the objects I had been working with earlier in the week. I needed to clear things back. It had started to feel too full, too heavy.  
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Clearing the space has made a difference. There is more room to think and more room to notice.
I found myself drawn to the wooden structure at the front of the chapel. There are carved shapes within the panels that I had not really paid attention to before. The form of the arch reminded me of spaces I have spent time in recently. It felt somewhere between a chapel window, a temple and a mosque, a shape most of us are familiar with.

I did not try to analyse it too much. I simply wanted to record it.

Using a Takuhon printing I took an impression of the carved wood. Rather than building something new, I was working with what was already there.

Strangely for me, I  added a small amount of colour. A faint mark of pink and orange. These are colours that have stayed with me since returning from India and Morocco. I have found myself drawn to them again without fully understanding why. The marks are minimal, not decorative, more like a trace, just a point of contact.

The process felt simple. I noticed something, it connected to something else in my memory, and I responded to it. I recorded it and left it open. Letting go of what was not working has opened up a different way of being in the space.
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I do not feel like I need to resolve anything yet. For now it is enough to continue noticing what is here and to respond in small, direct ways.