My work on Erasmus so far has been about a process. I have been working with the aim or freeing up my process within painting-drawing-image making and sculpture, I have also been working on making my work more ambiguous as I felt that both my work and my direction has become far too obvious and didactic. I am currently working with materials that have male and or female connotations- I am trying to work with this knowledge rather then letting it dictate the work too much. I feel I have come to a recognition and a point in my research-education on feminism where by I understand it and intend to work within in- but in a more general manner than before. Overall I have been ‘playing’ with different materials (I will be sending you on more wood and stone-metal work soon) in order to explore the language of each. As a general concept or rather theme I looked at the idea of fragility- primarily the Neil Gaiman quote from his book ‘Fragile things’ ‘ hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles able to pump for a lifetime seventy times a minute and scarcely falter along the way, even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things can prove remarkably difficult to kill’ I have also been reading ‘Uncle Tungsten’ by Oliver Sacks (Sean would LOVE this book). These alongside my thesis which is based around the notion of autobiography and personality as a construct have been the main feeding points of my work.