Here is the strange thing about this job.
I have family living in the region, not close family but cousins and their children, as well as a few Aunts. I only see them at weddings and funerals. But I feel like I have to do something, skillful and artistic, something that does not give art a bad name in the eyes of the general public.
Normally anywhere else in the country I feel relaxed enough to inflict what I want on the public. Though it is not my style to challenge people too far as this is sometimes irresponsible and can cause embarrassment.
I have this feeling of deference for the area, just because as a boy my father lived a few miles away and probably knows the area. An opportunity for me to leave behind something that was the best that I could do.
So I have revisted the fish pond as required by my brief and re done it. I will also design a version closer the pupils drawings as well for someone to choose between.
