How can the Fates be so rubbish? Sometimes I think someone has it in for me.
Nothing but endless bloody rain.
The Farningham Horse Project continues its perambulations around Kent.
Most Saturdays Ros Barker [my project partner], my husband and any passing teenager, neighbour or friend who can be talked into helping us out, loads 120 hobby horses into the cars and the cavalcade sets off.
Ramsgate it rained. Shoreham it rained and last weekend at the Folkestone Triennial Fringe it rained again. We sat in the car for half the day and then went looking for another venue – one that was dry. Eventually we carried the horses up a hill to some caves on the Leas Costal Path. We put out our lead horse – our Gay Pride Gardening Horse – don’t ask! – hoping its 5ft flag would bring in the curious.
It did its job – and we spent a happy afternoon explaining the project to the surprising number of hikers and families out in the wet.
Now we have to decide on a strategy for the next six months……first we need to come up with some form of support that will mean we can exhibit them indoors – galleries, shopping Malls, underpass etc.
No funding at present for this part of the project but more importantly no one has come up with a solution to the problem of how to stand 120 hobby horses up. I favour narrow strips of something with holes in that will take ten horses at a time. Flexibility is important. I can see them in one long line or around the edges of a room, or ten on each stair………
Some are quite top heavy, all are 4ft tall. Whatever we devise will have to go in an estate car boot……I suspect each support will have to be assembled on arrival. Maybe there is something in metal or plastic manufactured for something quite different we could utilise?
All suggestions warmly welcomed – please use the suggestion box below!
