Today we had guest lecturer, Dale Holmes. He started off his talk by showing us a video of a demonstration, which was part of an exhibition, called 'The Stone That Crashed Into The Kneecap Was Not Moving', which he did at Xero, Kline and Coma, in Hackney London. The demonstration consisted of Holmes standing in a stairwell, barelegged, reading 3 texts whilst shaving his legs. During the demonstration, Holmes used a single blade razor as he said he knew this would result in him getting cuts on his legs. He said he wanted cuts on his leg to reference the violence in the texts and also symbolise the paint by moving it around with the liquid. This hidden message within the presentation was interesting to me as I liked how he was reading a narrative from the texts but also adding more components to further emphasize the narrative.

In one of the texts, Holmes read he described a crash that had taken place during the Tour de France in 2018, involving Phillippe Gilbert. After Gilbert crashed he had shattered his knee and ended up needing surgery to fix the damage, however, he still finished the race.

The thought of using a bike as a 'portable studio' and being able to have a studio anywhere to get inspiration is really interesting to me. I feel inspired to try and find an outdoor location to use as a 'studio' and see if I can become inspired by my surroundings as Holmes does. 

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