Symphony of birds and pylons

What a great time we had in Greenwich last weekend.  Dual birthdays and a piece of my artwork in the DYSPLA art exhibition on NEURODIVERGENT AESTHETICS.  I got to see an array of fascinating artworks from different neurodivergent artists and got to talk about mine.  Lennie, one of DYSPLA’s main people, introduced the artists and asked them to say what they thought was the neurodivergent aesthetic. Well, it has taken me a long time to find the art form that nourishes my brain and is therefore to me, my neurodivergent aesthetic and that is video art.  It is instantly rewarding (I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2021 when I was 53 and now see clearly that I do need that instant or quick reward as this is what keeps me in the zone).  I can pull together things that may at first seem disparate but then, in a video art piece, make perfect sense to me.  And there is layering.  Each draft is a layer on top of a layer and so on until the thing is done.  This applies to making music videos, editing dance films, making video art, creating stop motion 5 second stories.  The layering is always there.

In school we are taught to be competitive and to be ashamed of making mistakes, of failure, or differing abilities.  But this is such a debilitating load of bollocks that I cannot believe how long I fell for that for.  As now, I could not care less about ‘competing’  but all I want to do is to keep on making.  My own way. And if that also helps other people too then that is a huge bonus.  

I want to thank DYSPLA for inviting me to be part of their wonderful exhibition and I hope to do more with them in the future.  The image that I submitted to the exhibition is a still from a piece of video art that I made from footage of pylons that I took on a forest walk.  I named the image ‘Planet Pylon’ and the video art piece is called ‘Symphony of birds and pylons’ and is posted below if you fancy taking a look.  For more about DYSPLA check out their link on linktr.ee/Dyspla