Showing Up. Why I am here. My situation is: I changed careers from fitness (14 years working in fitness industry) to art. I moved from Cork where I worked as a personal trainer and fitness instructor, to Ennis, Co Clare, where I had no job. Did this exactly 3 years ago. I started my MA in Fine Art with OCA, UK in September 2016 and [...]

I had a better day today, in terms of mental ability. I had trained before coming to glór, and arrived already warmed up and not unfamiliar to movement, so it was easier to get straight into it. I had given myself the jobs today of crawling all over the floor of the studio. Tara who teaches the Performance course I am doing mentioned that I [...]

I arrived this morning with no drive.. I just didnt have my usual focus. I was pleased to have just come form a meeting with my photographer friend and collaborator, where I put a date on the performance Night Crawl I have been working on, but I still felt anxious and distracted. That was ok, I just went about getting through my list of tasks [...]

Thursday 5 September: To do this morning in glór: (you cant beat a good to do list, typed in bold for added fervour) crawl sit cross legged and practice laughing at intervals practice body alphabet repeat gestural exercise- exaggerated So I did my crawling around the room as my warm up- I use a cross crawling pattern where you employ contra-lateral limbs to move, keeping [...]

Now I am not going to write a shpeel detailing my every move every day, but seeming as I am a bit behind with my documentation and what I've been up to I am catching up here plus making a recording of my actions each day I spend in glór- as I need to send this on to Tara and also I know from past [...]