Butterfly notebooks

Here are a selection of my poetic writings and drawings towards the creation of Flight is a Waltz - Puppet Flutter. 2014 - 2016
​This was a collaboration between myself and Dominic Harris.

The wings of a butterfly 
are much like a hand
they are hands
gripping the air.

The butterfly moves allot like a wave
rather than a straight up and down movement
the back wings articulate from a 
different point.

The butterfly 
is principally
of a liquid 
nature.

(1st February 2014)

Remembering that this is an artistic response.
Remembering Klee and the one which is made by an artist.

Find the essential and real within this.

(1st February 2014)

Here the movement skeleton becomes virtual
​-but as a driving movement principle which does not potentially rely on its exact physical existence.
(the physical existence is the tricky part)

(3rd September 2014)

The chaotic element is important

(10th October 2014)

Please and now for a simple solution

​(16th October 2014)

Will I 
recognise the 
solution when 
it appears.

My issues
the mechanical deviation from the referent.
Simple must also equate to robust.

​(16th October 2014)

In a way the creation
​of the butterfly total
should be an essential
memory of a butterfly.

To capture and then
to bring this back
to life.

What do we find.

(20th October 2014)

Working on creating
​the brass functional
space frame.

Don’t be afraid 
to rough out
turn idea fear
into solid innovation.

​(6th April 2015)

Another inaccuracy
​apparent wasted 1 ½ day
not so.

accuracy as like any 
skill require(s) patient practice.

there is a poetic in this
accuracy I must
move towards.

From a place of stasis
or from a place of stillness.

​(4th May 2014)

Also clumsy - how to build this in
chance mistake then
rhythmic catch
like cacophony melted
into rhythm and back.

(18th May 2015)

The mechanism
​can be any
shapes
between the
points
expressive
potential

​(11th June 2015)

The constant 
play off between
the requirements for
strength and
the significant
limitations on 
space crop up
in relation to the
machining of the
legs in this case.

(12th June 2015)

The centre
​moves within
with the
articulation
(one thing this
may do is
to give a
breathing
effect).

(19th June 2015)

Here I am nervous
towards putting it all together
praying that there is the
grace within what I
have made to move
freely
and dedicating my labour
to all that is true
and all that 
moves in 
​truth

​(1st September 2015)

The head carries the
reflection and window
towards the soul.

​(10th September 2015)

(Feeling
to become this

How to become 
this

How if realism wasn’t 
the primary concern.

One amongst equals.

What can be expressed
outside of realism, representation
and the figurative portrayal
even abstracted with puppetry?

This journey is interesting.
where will this take me
and us collectively.

(16th January 2016)

Notebooks dedicated to the project Flight is a Waltz - Puppet Flutter