#calico logbook;

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[a calico cat scratches her face on the corner of an iPad, where a scan from a whaling logbook is brought up]

Stop paying attention to dead whalers pay attention to LIVING FUZZY BABY.

#bosun blogging

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HOMEWORK: WEEK ONE

Next Week (Clay)

CAIA Lecturer Deb Taylor will conduct a presentation on clay before we break off into the start of Assessment 1 for a two-hour studio session in which you will, in a group, contribute to the development of a sculptural outcome.

You need to bring in a few things for this to work well…

Calico or other material so the clay does not stick to the benches

A rubber or metal kidney  

A rolling pin

Wooden spoon

Thin wire

See what you have lying around home, and improvise.

Deb and the workshop will provide some additional tools that can be shared on the day.

Independant Study

Book your Level 2 induction

Consider a group for your Level 3 induction and book it in

Continue to collate materials appropriate to an engagement with wood, metal and textiles (your clay will be available from the workshop next week)

Complete your OHS Modules

Read Greenberg’s Towards a Newer Laocoon (in Readings in L@G)

Create your Proficiency Logbook in PebblePad

Read and sign the Rivers Studio and Workshop Risk Assessment Form and, from screen grabs, include in your Proficiency Logbook

Make 5+ preliminary design sketches for a sculpture that includes clay, wood, metal and textiles. Use different implements and vary the scale of paper.

Photograph your sketches for upload to your Proficiency Logbook

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Hey SJ, I hope you and Bosun are doing alright! I hope this doesn't sound strange but I've been following you for ages and I always meant to message you about Bosun -- I also have a fluffy little long-haired calico that thrives on chaos, so seeing your posts about Bosun always make me smile (1/2)

I did have a question -- I was wondering if you had more information on or maybe a photo of the "and all that saved me was a cat" quote. My calico passed last week, and I thought that that quote would make a really nice addition to a tattoo for her. Though, since the journals are such personal documents, do you think it would even be appropriate to get a quote from one as a tattoo? Thank you so much! Hope you're having a great day! (2/2)

Ohh, thank you for your kind message, and I’m so sorry to hear about your cat. I hope the healing process is as gentle as it can be. I think it’d be a lovely tattoo to get in memory of her; journals are personal but there’s also something lovely and human about so many people finding a connection to a cat getting them through times of hardship.

Unfortunately in the journal itself, he didn’t mention the cat but for in an almost closing entry at the end of the voyage, where he’s lamenting both the length of the voyage, but also the notion of him becoming master of a ship as his ultimate lot in life (he was first mate in this instance). Here’s the entry for context, with the cat line at the end:

[ID: Portion from an 1840s whaling log, transcript follows]

“Middle part more moderate again. Set them. Saw a barque standing off to the westward. This is the first headwind we’ve had since we took the trades and this can’t be to[o] short to suite [suit] me, but if things are a coming out as I dreamed they had I shall soon have to make sail again for I dreamed I was published to one that I know would [?] to be master, and that would never suite me. And all that saved me was a cat. if it hadn’t been for her I don’t know how I should have come out.”

He would ultimately become a ship master for two voyages. If you want to know more about him in deciding if you want to get his words as a tattoo, the whole log is here. There’s also a giant logbook he wrote as a captain that I haven’t read yet, located here. Just skimming the first few pages of the latter it looks like he’s full of melodrama.

I recall him being a pretty decent fellow all things considered. He was kinda lovesick over…maybe…multiple women but particularly one named Mary. (he marries a Mary, though not the same one). Copying little bits of poetry down here and there. What have you.

#asks #batwingsandblackcats