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Lesley Bricknell | image made in response to 'Sister of swans', 2010

I have recently made a collaborative piece of work with another artist entirely through the medium of our respective blogs with no face to face contact! I have long admired Marion Michell’s combination of poetry and objects, often knitted or crocheted, on her blog ‘my art grows around me’. She in turn admires my work, predominantly photo images, on my blog ‘Surfacing’ Art Journal.

I took as my inspiration one of this particular artist’s poems ‘Sister of swans’ and made five photo images in a loose visual interpretation of her writing. Marion’s response to this was extremely positive prompting her to respond to my piece of visual work. Whether this is visual, written or a combination of practices remains to be seen. In what I hope will be an ongoing, fruitful collaboration. And we have never met each other!

submitted by Lesley Bricknell