#thecoracle

[oceanrowingboat]

Here I'm adding a skeg to #thecoracle. It's not a vital addition for a boat of this stature but in this instance serves a number of purposes. - I've used 18mm ply to add a modicum of ballast to the lowest point of the boat which will give a hint more stability. As the client for this boat is a very exacting 4 year old it also allows a very simple rudder for both attachment and at-sea repairs as he's requested. - You can also see the filleting of thickened resin around it which acts as the bond. This is one of the many reasons why building #thecoracle is such a great introduction to the methods you'll need if you want to build an #oceanrowingboat or other grand venture. - I'd like to thank everyone who has followed this venture up to now for their patience as I create the website and initial products. I do have a plan for content which will cover details and techniques like this much more comprehsivly. You'll get to enjoy that soon! - If #thecoracle is of interest to you check out the link in my bio for the relevent pages of the website. Thanks - #boatbuilding #garagebuilt #boatplans #coracle #oceanrowing (at Ocean Rowing Boats) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqsl5YlcS7/?igshid=5dohurg0wmgs

[thinkingimages]

‘In Sisters of Menon (1972-9) writing slips across the pages, in and out of legibility...our thoughts drift with the rhythm of a script that recalls, perhaps, the Oristean chorus summoning the furies in response to a crime’ Jean Fisher on Susan Hiller @thecoracler

The Sisters of Menon, 1972-1979, was made while Hiller was working on her collaborative telepathy experiment Draw Together. While working on this project where she attempted to send images for friends all over the world to draw, Hiller was surprised to find herself the agent of automatic writing. This work was then to form this body of work known as The Sisters of Menon, which communicated powerful collective female solidarity of ‘sisters’ from Thebes.1 The women’s movement of the 70s that Hiller was a part of carried an interest in Ancient Greek oracular women. When her partner David Coxhead tried to participate, the mediumistic telepresence inscribed ‘no men.’ Lippard points out that ‘no men’ is an anagram of Menon as is ‘nomen’ which means ‘name,’ and also that “the Sisters of Menon spoke in several voices: singular (I), plural (we) and collective (everyone); they were insistently repetitive, almost permutational”. 2Lippard notes that “when automatism is used by men, it is often ideologically validated as science, but when used by women ‘it is denigrated as the nonproductive, threatening activity of mediums.’”3 Regarding her easy transition from telepathy art experiment to automatic writing, Hiller sees these works, and her work in general, as part of her exploration of transmission of images and ideas, and her refigured notions of ‘the divided self.’ Hiller has a strong sense of art historical links between Surrealism, Fluxus and Conceptual art.

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