Although this blog is framed around the Inishlacken Project, sometimes, blog-related things happen and in this case it has prompted me to write again after a gap of three months.
The project in Eastbourne, entitled Impossible Changeling, is now complete. I covered the interior of a beach hut with gold leaf and also gilded 142 pebbles which were placed onto the beach at regular intervals during the show. I was lucky enough to spend several days in Eastbourne and this gave me an opportunity to chat with visitors to the show. It is always fascinating to be given an insight into the genuine responses of the public to a work, be this pleasure, disgust or indifference! I had several discussions with people, one man in particular who was initially sceptical eventually returned three times to the work. Another visitor was fellow blogger Judith Alder – she writes of her work and studio group. Our conversation on the beach at Eastbourne made both of us aware that we knew each others names but not until Judith returned home did she put two and two together and realise we were fellow bloggers.
It has made me understand just how far the blogging world can reach and how I have underused its potential.
