I’ve been hit with the lurgy this weekend, which is really a gentle reminder that I can’t do as much as I would like to think I can.
As my only day off this week was spent in London, I’d been trying to finish off the Chapel gallery installation as well as deal with all the correspondence relating to our NY exhibition next year, in the evenings.
As with most of my installations, I get frustrated with the making and always believe they will never work. This one has been particularly bad as there are too many parts to it that need to be glued, with a waiting period to dry, before another part can be added. It’s just too complicated and time consuming. My bug has made me unable to think straight or have the patience to complete anything and I’m aware of the time ticking by.
With this in mind, and knowing I can’t realistically work on another installation this year, I’ve been revisiting some of my older work to see if they can be re-used.
I went through the boxes of paper houses I’d made last year and picked out favourites. Almost each one had a little story or memory attached to it and I enjoyed handling them again. I know I will probably feel the same about the paper balloons I am making, in the future…. but not now.
I don’t know what I will do with this ‘new’ work, but it was good to have a bit of a break and make something that was much less time consuming.
Now I can just sit and rest, knowing that I have achieved something, no matter how small
