I feel like my project is starting to get going again. Today I have bought the materials that I need for the installation, and went on a few walks to consider where I could do an external work (or series of works), and collected a series of discarded architectural materials to use for my internal installation. I have started to spray these and arrange them within the studio. I have also made the decision to use the original boards for woodcut that I bought from the SFAI, and getting another one cut would create delay and it could be difficult to source paper. I am trying to simplify logistics due to time pressures and my inability to speak little Mandarin.
We also decided today to open my exhibition in the studio here at HuangJePing Art Centre on the 28th June. It is really not long and I have a lot to do! Lists, lists and just work through it. I thought it would be easier to have it here rather than across town like the previous artist.
We also had a few visitors today, Ping Bo came back to see us, and one of YanYan’s students came to say hello to me with her parents. Afterwords we went to a studio complex on the hill, where we visited the studio of Li Xiaojing. She is one of the few female artists I have met yet, and she is my age. Her paintings and animation combine naive illustrative elements within a melancholic and dream like environment.
I am back at the SFAI on Wednesday to print so I had better get going!
