• Chantel Matthews

Morning Pages

The Blog is a think tank. A process of assessing the everyday. Creating a criteria of what can be considered. What is potential art and what is just life. A dumping ground. The blog also houses art that contributes to thoughts and ideas I am interested in at the time.

Morning pages is a method used in this process.


After watching Marina Abramovich, The Space in Between, I was really drawn by her ideas that art is a bridge, connecting the spiritual with the physical or can be as simple as connected two human beings. She also talks about removing herself, the public are the work and how we need to bring nature into the cities, leave nature alone.


Tested putting incense into one of the uku cups to create a sense of essence. imagining a space that is filled with different vessels that hold different essences that are lit to create a room that is filled with smells, not sure what smell yet or how it works to keep every vessel lit. could be a timing thing, at night they are lit so the day time is only the traces of essence, where the smell is left behind...

Vessence, uku, essence, 2020