Elna Cavendish 19 December

Two very enthusiastic teachers; I have experienced this before in others and myself, the enthusiasm and joy for teaching. The deep sense of belonging which a vocation generates.

Also two young students who just love going to school.

Discussion on how the constant changing of the curriculum has effected students and learners. There have been three curriculum changes in less than 10 years.

Also to expand subjects in grade 10 to include global interests, e.g.: in art theory to not only focus on local artists but to include international ones. The balance of global/local.

Conversation with Mrs Love and her current adventures. I’m not sure what title to give her: Yogini? Tantriki? Tantric teacher? Sex educator? She has been conducting workshops on sex awareness through her travelling cinema - The Pussy Room. There is something fundamentally educational about this cinema and with it she has participated in various festivals.

She was informing me yesterday how she has realised that the art work has not been the theatre (Pussy Room), nor the movies, but the conversation which develops from these viewings. We discussed how art has developed into an area of conversation, the interactions between people become the art work. Art thus no longer dependent on skill or craft. These techniques develop something transitory, fluid and moving.

It was only once I had stepped out into public spaces and started knitting in them, that I realised the true work to be the conversation. The rest, the menditations, the fabric etc., become props for the setting of the conversations.

Documentation becomes secondary, and is an aspect which I still remain uncomfortable with.

The art has happened: The conversation, so what of this documentation!? Yes it allows the conversation to spread out including others. I don’t particularly enjoy this part, the photographing, the writing …THE WRITING aaargh.