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Margaret Huber

Diary Projects

New Shoes

My Space

Noise Cancelling Earphones and a Small Burden

Workspace

Burden's Landscape

The Gift of Transportation from Richard

February 14

I Feel Nesh

Red Leaf

Hello - Go Away

Dinner

I Need To Relax

Meeting Notes

'Sea Lion Woman'

* 'Sea Lion Woman' was recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress. It was sung by Christine and Katherine Shipp.

Burden Carrying

Free Ride

* See more train tickets at: http://dayreturntobrighton.blogspot.com

This is How I Feel

Horses

Thinking About Things

Blue Inspires Him Enormously

* See more train tickets at: http://dayreturntobrighton.blogspot.com

Fresh Start

London to Minneapolis

Thunderstorms in Minneapolis

I'm Very Tired

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Margaret Huber
I teach at the University of Brighton where I am the acting course leader for the MA Sequential Design/Illustration and MA Arts & Design by Independent Project. I also work with art and design students, teaching classes in visual diaries, mapping and self-publishing through the BA Extension Studies programme, and supervise two PhD students. I am originally from America but now live in London.
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LINKS

  • Day Return To Brighton
  • Uncle Pony's Scrapbook
  • Graham Rawle
  • Niff Actuals

MOLESKINE DIARY

Some pages in my diary are a real mess, but occasionally a door seems to open and something steps through, an idea or observation that sums up my day or a starting point for future work. I take my diary places I both do and don’t want to go.  It helps me to get through meetings I’d rather not attend and keeps me company when visiting the dentist.  I take it to restaurants in case I overhear anything interesting and on tiny adventures to coffee shops and museums.  It’s also a favourite place to draw & paint while sitting in front of the TV.  I enjoy the methodical approach to visual diary keeping; being able to turn the page to start again opens up the potential for new thinking.

DAY RETURN TO BRIGHTON

'Day Return to Brighton' is an ongoing diary project of now close to a thousand drawings on used train tickets from my daily commute from London to Brighton.  When I started the series I set a few ground rules to help me remember what was important in the work.  I limited the drawing materials to pencil, pen (black and blue ink only) and Tipp-Ex (white correction fluid), which keeps the project portable.  I never throw tickets away:  if I make a mistake I keep working on it until I'm left with something I like or can use, which might mean ending up with a virtually black ticket if things go badly wrong.  For the most part I try to work with the mistakes, remembering that I'm allowed some less than wonderful tickets over the long haul.  Also, every ticket used in the series must be mine, and only those used for my daily commute to Brighton.  This reinforces my initial objective, which was to try to find a positive way to acknowledge the time and money invested in commuting.  Each ticket represents one day of my working life.

Archive

  • ▼  2009 (8)
    • ▼  August (1)
      • New Shoes
    • ►  May (5)
      • My Space
      • Noise Cancelling Earphones and a Small Burden
      • Workspace
      • Burden's Landscape
      • The Gift of Transportation from Richard
    • ►  February (2)
      • February 14
      • I Feel Nesh
  • ►  2008 (16)
    • ►  November (1)
      • Red Leaf
    • ►  October (3)
      • Hello - Go Away
      • Dinner
      • I Need To Relax
    • ►  September (12)
      • Meeting Notes
      • 'Sea Lion Woman'
      • Burden Carrying
      • Free Ride
      • This is How I Feel
      • Horses
      • Thinking About Things
      • Blue Inspires Him Enormously
      • Fresh Start
      • London to Minneapolis
      • Thunderstorms in Minneapolis
      • I'm Very Tired
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