Zoom Session 27

A Making Session –

This week we had a making session. However before we embarked on that task we did two other exercises – a writing exercise and a random searching exercise. This week was a really interesting week from a collaboration and connections point to view. Earlier in the day I had posted to our WhatsApp chat group, a pdf of some images I shot of the beautiful light and architecture at the MACBA in Barcelona.

Sue saw this and she mentioned that she might like to paint one of the images which I thought was great! So, during our first task which was a writing exercise I wrote the following:

Writing exercise - zoom session 27

From our writing exercise we then had to perform a series of searches which were initially based on the word or phrase that jumped out at us from our search. You can see from my writing above that I circles ‘I’m super excited’. Therefore this was to be my starting phrase. The sequence of searching was specific and as follows:

Searching Exercise

Take a phrase and search it
Go to the 7th page of results
Scroll to the 7th link
Rinse and repeat 7 times to see where it leads

Once this exercise was completed we then had to ask ourselves a series of questions as follows:

Zoom 27 - Questions to answer from a Google search

Unfortunately I didn’t get very far as sometimes there were less than 7 pages. However, I ended up on the page of a company that was selling cycling bottles. It certainly was random! I’m not particularly into cycling but I did think it was a really useful and interesting exercise to do. I’ll definitely try this again.

The next part of the session was where it got very interesting from a happy coincidences point of view. Our next task was to work in pairs to make something together based on what had come up in our searches. Bearing in mind that I had just said in my writing exercise that I was super excited over the possibility of working with Sue she asked Jonathan if we could work together. I felt that this was really nice given what I had just written and also very coincidental.

In this part of the session as we worked together I didn’t do much at all, but Sue started a lovely drawing of one of my images. More importantly we decided that it might be nice to meet up when she next comes to Devon. I think that is a great idea and I’m really looking forward to it.