I am feeling a bit more confident now that the work is going to happen. I managed to put a few good hours into the cutting and the map is beginning to transform. You can see how the folds seem to disappear when the paper is cut away from the streets. The cutting is monotonous in its action but as I am forced to only work on it a few hours (or less) at a time I am finding myself getting quite excited each time I get it out to do some more. I am ambivolent about working like this, sometimes I find it so hard and against my natural desire to make a mess or mud-pies, and yet…its sort of like scratching an itch – you start and you want to keep on doing it.
