It’s my birthday today, but no let-up in the preparations for my Fringe Festival installation. I think we’ll treat ourselves to a meal at the local pub this evening, though!
Quite a few of the items in the catalogue of woe of my last blog entry have now been addressed, thanks in no small measure to Trevor, who has worked tirelessly helping to retrieve large unwanted TVs from lofts, making and painting plinths, offering calm reassurance and so on. I know I’m biased (well, we are getting married in a fortnight’s time!) but his soundtrack, now I’ve actually had the chance to start working with it, is sounding FANTASTIC!
Many more hours than I care to count have been spent in cutting, dipping, rolling and varnishing little elderberry beads for the covers of the new Kalender, but now every single one is stapled on and waiting to be taken to the undercroft of Dragon Hall in Norwich, where I’ll be installing on Thursday. All the past issues have been printed out at A4 and comb-bound, so that’s another thing sorted.
I’ve decided to project a single image into one of the dark alcoves within the vaulting, as I have an overhead projector and the space just seems made for it. So there’ll be the projection in one alcove, the video in another (also naturally quite dark), and in the third, two tall plinths each supporting an image on canvas. That’s the plan, anyway, and at the moment it does seem achievable.
