More burning sugar today – yesterday's batch has turned itself back into a thick, sticky, dripping syrup.
Behind the sugar store, fairies cling to the wall amongst the cobwebs.
CHIPPER TUESDAY
Things beginning to fall into place.
Grass is up, wallflowers up. Boards on the wall. Pebbles stuck and progressing over the floor – a track along the South Coast…
The eggs to attend to, drawings to do.
Time for the mushroom?
MURKY MONDAY
Heavy rain all day – in all day – the roof started dripping.
The ladder was found – ladder relief. Got the blank wallpaper up. Things are looking up.
I left the project space with a smell of burning sugar in the air today – but don't worry – it was all part of the plan. Following on from Under Ground at Hastings, I'm still experimenting with sugar, paper, wax and pollen – today it was sugar.
I left the first of my sticky sugar papers hanging alongside my Store. I made a sticky spun sugar drawing – though in the damp atmosphere of the Store room, it will have dissolved and changed by morning. More tomorrow.
SUNDAY
Where is the ladder? We borrowed one for 2 hours to get my bird up. But we need a ladder for these high ceilings.
Made a rough sketch of the white bird. Used PVA super evo bond to stick the pebbles – will they hold?
My half-made egg rolled off the windowsill where it was drying by the radiator and broke into shards. Woe.
Judith Alder and Roz Cran are two artists based in East Sussex. They are currently working together on two projects: BMPD is a programme of professional development and networking events for artists in the Eastbourne area; Breaking Ground is a collaborative project which has been supported by a NAN New Collaborations Bursary and an ACE Grant for the Arts. Breaking Ground is being charted on a-n Projects Unedited.
