A good day.
Spent the morning making some work. When I had done what I'd wanted to do I got so excited I had trouble catching my breath. I made what I consider the most perfect piece of work I've ever made. I will show it at our open studios.
Then I went to said studios and spent the afternoon taking photos and putting up more banners and deciding what was going to go on them. In all (if I can get it all done before 25 October which is the first day of the Open Studios) I will have 5 new experiments of work to show.
What a good day it's been.
Then a talk by Juilan Stallabrass at Fabrica about Thomas Hirschhorn and 'The Incommensurable Banner'. JS was very good. Lots of factual information and background, a lot of which I already knew from my research but enough new stuff to keep it interesting. I was much heartened by seeing J there and having a nice chat with him about it all. We have arranged that he will come in to the gallery when I am doing one of my stints so that we can have more of a conversation about our thoughts about Hirschhorn's banner. I showed him my perfect piece of work and had no qualms saying I thought it perfect.
Brilliant to see some more of my Brighton Students there as well. Especially E and some of the first years whom I haven't met properly yet. Also exchanged emails with L at Sussex Uni this evening. She is going to bring their Visual Culture Society group down to the gallery to do a workshop with me in November.
Also spoke to J today who is going to come to see the exhibition and talk to me – and D has emailed me back to say that he will come down from Oxford too. He's doing a poetry gig on the South Bank for Modern Poetry in Translation involving John Berger so must find out about that.
All going well.
I'm firing on all cylinders.
Brrrrum brrruummmmm!!
