Making frames to transport my work safely into the gallery for the degree show. The books are very delicate and are usually made on site but we have less than a week to set up and each book can take a day or two to make.
So I have to make all ten of them in college and somehow transport them safely into the gallery to then be re-strung onto their ceilings.
The maquette of the frame worked well but the actual frame I made this week was laughable, about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Then thanks to puting heads together with a lecturer and one of our ex students we came up with a plan that should work and is now part way through being made so next week may well see the first one made which would be a big relief.
Last week I was working for Liverpool Biennial in the ideas shop with David Bade again before his return to Amsterdam and I made one of my book sculptures in the shop – site specifically. Using an A-Z book I carefully cut out any piece of the Leeds/Liverpool canal on any page and the surrounding parks and roads, the roads were cut from the index too but kept completely to the Seaforth area. Then I threaded them through the pages and hung the book and some of the threads from the ceiling and walls. It's meaning is to draw attention to the slow down of local regeneration and how it had affected the different threads of the community and how by working together they can be united once again. It went down well with community members, some of whom had offered to help set it up.
This weekend will be spent tidying my studio so that I can actually fit in there again to work!!
