Moving on.

So my time has come to end my time here on the residency, but I feel that this experience is one that may always remain with me, the nature of Reside and its intimacy is special in that way. I highlighted my journey over the last six months in my previous post and so I am left with one final piece of work to add before finally passing the residency over to the next artist. 

I ended up with taking one of my ink drawings and creating from it an alternative to the construction for coastline. This piece seems to leave me open to suggestions, but with a firmer grip on getting to places, maybe towards one final place? Unknown places? It seems also to leave something behind; recent times, ancient times. Yet it sits firmly in the constant now and firmly for a future of the private and intimate and the universal. There are many questions that remain with me; where do I and will I reside? What places will I go to as my work unfolds?  

Anthony Boswell. 'Construction for Coastline 2'. 2013. Mixed media model. Click image to enlarge.

I sit and look at the drawing, cut and placed to represent a large steel piece looking out at the Atlantic, facing the passing of each slow moment of eternity, ageing and firm and I think of my own process of creating a correlative to my life, how I face time too. The whole process is full of ambiguity. It will always be that still, melancholic certainty.  

Anthony Boswell. 'Construction for Coastline 2' Detail.

So the time has come for the next artist to embark upon their own journey with Reside. It was a time of much needed thought for me to select, but my choice was to pass this residency over to Michaela Nettell, who will be moving towards a time of great change in her life, one that will mean her coming to terms with her domestic environment and her working practice in new ways. I hope the time with Reside will be as intimate and fruitful as I have found it and she too can cherish it. 

Thankyou Reside for what you allow to be.