I have a working week at the moment, which is odd, and making me a little annoyed (I want my autonomy back now please), but having work and a little planning ahead are also things to be grateful for, I know.
I am going into schools doing big cardboard den/building kinds of things – knackering and loud – then have 5/6 hours cataloguing to do every evening, and full days of it at weekends. Not forever, but I am getting behind with so much already. It’s easier being in Yorkshire because I am in a hotel, so I can just get into pyjamas and crack on cataloguing. It’s satisfying too, working so hard and I am glad to be busy to take my mind off other things (see previous post).
At the back of my mind new things are growing, mainly some work I want to make, a film of crushed and collapsed things, and some text/book work and sculpture around eggs and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Sounds random I know, but it makes perfect sense to me.
These will have to wait. I really have to apply for some research funding somewhere down the line – although I feel lost and unsure about where to start. Arts Council route always seems unlikely, but probably more so at the moment. I think I know a few people who’ve had R & D funding, so I shall have to see if they are willing to offer some pointers. I will have to have a very good think about these things in my week off in July. Wait, that would be working though. Oh shit. Perhaps I will sleep for four days and think/read/write for three, but only about nice things, with wine and barbeques. That’s not a bad compromise.
Tomorrow is meetings at Yorkshire Sculpture Park so I am looking forward to a good furkle round the education archive and a delicious lunch – seriously, the restaurant there is amazing. There is also the new David Nash show to see and I have heard rumours of a drawing workshop involving Jenny West…. I hope I get to meet her, I LOVE her work, but most likely it won’t be her day. I am also getting the proofed version of the bursary book back, so I am fairly terrified of that. It’s hard not to take these things personally, even though I spotted a typo as soon as I’d emailed it through! At least I won’t get lost; I have spent the last two days doing many extra miles trying to find schools and meet people – my sat nav doesn’t have wakefield’s new roads on and it hates me.
