Hello. I've just come back from 3 excellent, creative, fulfilling, and frosty days up in Dunkeld where I was taking part in the Imaginate Winter Sessions masterclass. The class was run by David Harradine, theatre maker/designer and was specifically looking at environment and space.
We had to complete some preparatory work before heading up - we had to bring 5 coloured objects, a photograph a landscape we knew well, 5 objects that describe that landscape, and a written task where we had to visit the same spot on 3 separate occasions and answer questions such as: what can you smell? where is the sky?
Over the course of the 3 days we went on walks in the beautiful snowy hills around the Birnam arts centre. On these walks David helped us to really look at the landscape, questioning colours, textures, shapes and sounds. Often we spent time looking at the small details as much as the large vistas. We would then take these ideas back into the workshop space and create work based on our findings. As it was such a mixed bunch of artists taking part in the workshop we ended up with a real variety of work being created. Some highlights for me were the giant forest caopy that we made from cardboard on the last day (in only 30 mins!), the colour wheel made from our objects brought from home, and some of the more personal, intimate performance pieces that happened throughout the class.
For me it was really interesting to think in such a visual way as I'm used to being creative with my ears, first and foremost! This was a challenge but it was one that I really enjoyed. Our senses are all so clearly linked that I soon found a way of working that incorporated music/sound in a very visual way.
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