From a series ‘Little Red Riding Hood‘

I went to the Van Doesburg exhibition at the Tate Modern. Very good with a lot of interesting work. I really liked the films they had on, Le Ballet Mechanique was particularly good. My favourite of Van Doesburg’s work is the painting Composition (The Cow), above. I was drawn to it straight away, maybe because of the colours. It showed both the initial drawing and the painting. You could really recognise the neck and head of the cow munching on the grass- I couldn’t stop looking at it! I liked that he had abstracted it, but not gone so far as to make it completely unrecognisable.

Group of architects from 1960′s

Model photographs (1982) by theatre designer Ralph Koltai
‘the mirrored floor and walls reflecting the narcisstic nature of the characters’

Back cloth design for Act III of Pulcinella 1986
gouache and collage on paper 30.5 x 56.5 cm

Picasso, Parade by E. Satie

‘Every child at play behaves like a creative writer, by creating a world of his own or… by imposing a new and more pleasing order on the things that make up his world’. Sigmund Freud

1950′s string Pelham puppet

‘Museum of Childhood’ in Bethnal Green gave me a lot to think about when considering how I will make the film ‘move.’ With character I could think try: friction toys, sand toys, moving by hand (african wire toys), moving by wind, air heat, steam, worked by strings (puppetry), circuits and motors, springs, wind up toys.

Background: peepshows, fantascopes/ phenakistoscopes