Name: Sue Field Pronouns: She/her/hers Occupation / Practice: Designer, artist, academic,  author Nationality: Australian Current Location: Sydney, Australia Website:  https://www.sue-field.com/

Story Moment I was particularly inspired by Edwin P. Hubble’s metaphysical concept of ‘velocity of recession… as the moment when all the universe’s matter was concentrated in a single point, before it began to expand in space’. The notion that we all were once crowded together into a single point or moment of time, resonates powerfully with me. The object of the red telephone with the receiver hanging off the hook embodies an absent presence. There is an ambivalent sense that someone, the ‘crowd’, have just left the room or that ‘single point’ in time. Read the whole story ︎︎︎here.  What do you think influenced your storyworld and how your contribution turned out? In tandem while reading the story, All at One Point, I also began to draw in charcoal and ink. It is late afternoon, and I am sitting on the floor of the living room of my 1920’s heritage apartment of bevel-edged glass doors on Coogee Beach, Sydney Australia. I am submerged in a soundscape of waves crashing on the Coogee cliffs and Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Within this space dramatic noir shadows cast across the walls. My drawings are a stream-of-consciousness; an intuitive response to the story, music and scenographic mise-en-scène cascading into my space. My drawing practice is always directly influenced by my surroundings and the present moment.

The Storyworld Project prompted me to transform the story All at One Point into a drawing. The process transported me into some other imaginative space beyond the confines of my living room. The drawing is a multi-perspectival, scenographic mind’s eye view into my imagination as I absorbed the metaphysical narrative of 'All at One Point'.