I must learn to say no – problem is so many interesting projects in work that I really want to be involved with (pedal powered film screenings, touched talks, seminars and I’m helping co-ordinate a visit/lecture/series of workshops by Bruce Mau!) but I also need to do my own work – so I have taken the rest of the week off and I’m getting stuck in so’s to speak.
It’s all going really well, the artists have all been down and 2 have finished.
Emma + Chris have made a test piece for their percussion installation, a much smaller version and are coming back Thursday/Friday to go large!
Karon brought her new sculpture based on a Peacock Butterfly Pupa and an older piece that I had specifically asked to be included, an iron chair that looks fantastic in the space. My project will involve providing seating in the park in various forms so this piece was chosen to represent the future. Nobody can actually sit on it but the idea will be in their minds at least. I can’t post the photo today as it wont let me rotate it but watch this space!
Hayley (with husband Roger in tow) has been and made a veritable Housing Estate of Multi Storey flats for insects. Housing Market Renewal at it’s greenest.
They all look amazing, I’m so pleased with how it’s come together and think the right places were chosen for each piece.
My own work is so much slower, the bench is being made by my husband and a metal fabricator. It has been a very strange experience to design an artwork and have it completely made by someone else. I can’t even lift one of the railway sleepers let alone 3! and the metal work has to be laser cut so I don’t have a say in that.
Hope it works, it’s an odd feeling though, I feel rather detached from it.
The Botanical Illustrations are being laser etched by someone else too but it’s different as the actual drawings are taking so much time and effort and so i feel I have actually contributed more to thispart of the project. Hoping to have ten signs made in time for the opening with a further 10-20 appearing over the course of the summer.
Organising an Open day has been a good experience but who’s to know if it works, I might get 20 people over the threshold or maybe 100 – we can only hope the weather is beautiful so the locals arrive in droves.
I feel like it’s a finale even though it’s just a beginning, a quick presentation of what can be achieved over the next 12 months, the promise of more workshops and more artwork.
I’m looking forward to getting in touch with the local schools and youth groups and might invite some of my old college down next term, it would be good to see what type of land art they could come up with in a day.
But for now…I must carry on drawing or there will be none of my artwork on the day!
