We had a visiting artist today talking about his work. David Stickman Higgins is an artist using multi media including poetry, music and acting. His performance was interesting, thought provoking and he reminded me of myself because the work that he does comes from his personal experiences in his life. He works in a multi senstory was using play. One of his works was based on an experience when he went to Brussels and he was taken aside with his travelling companion, Biant Singh and asked where are you from.
He was I feel a good performer and thrives on an audience. He interacts with his audience, and he worked to drag us into his world, to get us to speak. I think he put people out of their comfort zone because he was so lively, you didn't know whether he was going to pounce on you!
He also prompted us with questions such as what is my work telling people? what is it I want to say? What is the drive in doing my art? He told us about the 5 d's - dig, discover, digest, develop and deliver,
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