Its 10.00pm; 12 hours until we begin installing WET. I still don’t know what im installing, im very anxious but assure myself that this is completely normal for me. It doesn’t help.
In between various “outreach” activities at work, i dyed my worsted fabric with madder in the Textile Workshop. I quite like natural dyes, there’s a recipe but it doesn’t need following too tightly. Madder really stinks. i found it quite hard to work with as it steamed away, and that was only a bucket worth of madder – imagine how smelly the Textile Dye industry probably was. I took the bucket back to my studio and its still soaking, so i should have a really deep red by tomorrow.
This evening i have been tracing the locations of Textile Mills and Workshops in Norwich from the 19th Century, i made a map and this proves that the River Wensum was central in the Textile Industry. I feel the map is necessary as it offers the viewer a clue into my research, but i don’t like how i have drawn it – i will redo it in the morning.
I don’t expect that i will do much installing tomorrow, mostly sitting, watching and thinking about what i will display to evidence this research – and i feel that it needs to look like research. My work will happen on Saturday night as i process the days thoughts, and realise them on Sunday during installation.
Looking forward to seeing everyone else tomorrow, and seeing their resolved interpretations of “WET”.
