‘Flood’ is almost ready to go now. The knitted piece that will clad the tree was supposed to be ready for a test installation today, but the bank holiday weekend and a problem with the knitting machine mean that Jane hasn’t been able to finish it. We’ve rescheduled for Thursday. It is a shame we weren’t able to do it today, the bright sunshine would have been great for photographs. I might take some of the samples down to the site this afternoon and get a few detail shots. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this good weather continues for the rest of the week. Once the piece is installed we run the risk of it being vandalised, so it may not survive long enough for us to get good images on a sunny day.
The flood map now has two design choices, and we just need to get together and make the final decision. Making the map won’t take long – I have everything ready and will do colour photocopies to hand out to people who come on the flood walk.
In the meantime, my longer term collaboration with Jacqueline Wylie and Jude Macpherson is getting exciting. We got a rejection this week for our last proposal and should have been disappointed, but we weren’t. We’d already wavered about whether the proposal had been made to the right venue, so there was a bit of relief.
Our last meeting was full of energy. We started planning a new project, called ‘Manchester Time Piece’ and have a couple of applications underway to develop it. It already has it’s own twitter feed @McrTimePiece, and there will be a blog.
As for Lime-related work, I have a meeting next week with someone from Manchester Royal Infirmary to explore some ideas. I’m not sure how to approach the meeting. The contact came via Brian, Lime’s director. I might have a chance to speak to him before the meeting, but that depends on his diary.
I was back at Rogue Studios last week for an opening and put my head through the door of my studio there. I miss it, but it is impractical to try and work in both places, so will grit my teeth and get back to Lime.
