BRICKS - PROCESS VALUE BUILD

Through the process of reforming drawings, one small brick Drawing Brick, was created with sorted recycled resources. In the moments of breaking down the material, it enabled a space within the mind to unfold, away from the mindless chatter, and distractions of everyday life. Through the repetition of the activity it was evident that the focus was on the process and value of it, and not only about the resource, or the mark, or the memory, but of the artistic mind space to reconnect with. On reflection it went deeper, asking questions on how Sarah valued herself and her art practice.

Bit by bit, as the process proceeded, the discarded demonstration drawings became dismantled, soaked, and repurposed into papier-mâché, and reformed into a brick. The brick was chosen as a metaphor for building, as well as its basic shape, and it’s notoriety as a standard measure, it represents value, and ultimately the more you have the more impressive the outcome.

Now distracted from the overwhelming feelings and anxieties that prevented and blocked the route of creating, Sarah thoughts went elsewhere, looking for and surveying other readily available resources that turned up regularly in the everyday, she stared collecting and experimenting with making other bricks.

After the Drawing Brick, came Tea Brick, Weetabix Brick, Map Brick, Amazon Packaging Brick, Crayon Wrapper Brick, Ceramic Bricks, and a brick made with half of the dried sunflowers leftover from ‘Cultivating the Community’ exhibition, the Sunflower Brick.