{"id":15792,"date":"2025-01-05T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:35:52","slug":"less-space-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/less-space-in-the-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Space in the Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less Space in the Studio<\/span><\/p>\n

Another New Studio<\/span><\/p>\n

In the book ‘The Garden Against Time’<\/a> Olivia Laing<\/a> writes about the restoration of a garden, delving into its history and the forces around it that shape that history. She writes<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c …I was exhausted by the perpetual, agonised now of the news. I didn’t just want to journey backwards through the centuries. I wanted to move into a different understanding of time: the kind of time that moves in spirals or cycles, pulsing between rot and fertility, light and darkness. I had an inkling even then that the gardener is initiated into a different understanding of time, which might also have a bearing on how to preclude the apocalypse we seem bent on careering into. I wanted to dig down, and see what I could find. A garden contains secrets, we all know that, buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls, but like every garden it was interconnected, wide open to the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a fascinating book drawing on notions of the garden from Milton’s Paradise through John Clare and the ravages of enclosure and even to Iris Origo’s war diary from la Foce, ‘War in Val d’Orcia’<\/a> with all the diversions you would imagine and never shirking the moral ambiguity at the heart of all interactions with the land. <\/span><\/p>\n

That idea of connecting to everything through a seemingly solitary activity is exactly what I’m trying to achieve with ‘woolgathering’<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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So in December I made one more big drawing of the flower beds and worked on the VR world, firstly refining the ground so that the lawn is flat and then working on the jumps between the life size and micro views that will lead into the other worlds before finally putting in the background from Google Maps to place the garden in a bigger environment.<\/span><\/p>\n