The project is building momentum, members of Satellite who have opted into putting something into our first portfolio collection for Space Exchange at Aid and Abet have emailed me 3 images each. These in turn have been sent to Aid and Abet who will select one image from each artist. Its good they will be curating our first portfolio. We are though, producing this on a shoestring (sound familiar) and each Satellite member is baring the cost of production, in a very tight deadline. My own image is an ink drawing, which i will reproduce 37 times, some will go into portfolios, others will be for sale individually. The trials were produced using what transpired to be the worlds smallest (slight exaggeration) and fairly ineffectual light-box making the processes not as pleasurable as it could have been. Will be treating myself to a A3 light-box to produce the set.
Each artist submitted images which link to East Anglia in some way, my own are taken from a residency last year at Hethel Engineering Centre near Norwich. Derek the Engineer that i worked with told me about his apprenticeship days in the drawing office where he used coloured inks in addition to pencil on technical plans. The inks had no informational purpose but did in fact simply look visually pleasing. Obvously more time consuming that simply using a pencil, the drawing office manger didnt encourage the activity but i thought for my contribution to the portfolio edition i would indulge myself and spend time drawing the same image repeatedly using pen and ink. I hope i give myself enough time to enjoy doing it.
