THE TRIALS OF LIFE!
My studio has been a place of life and death drama today.
For a couple of weeks now I have been planting runner beans, hoping to have a good number of them ready for our first project space residency at Phoenix Arts in July. I am amazed at the speed with which they have grown &, having been away from the studio for most of last week, have had to do some emergency "potting-on" today.
The first lot of beans are quite established now, but the latest crop have grown long and leggy in their fight towards the light of the studio window. So I decided to put them outside in the yard where they can enjoy some natural sunlight & fresh air … with disastrous consequences as they wilted rapidly in the baking afternoon sun! I brought them back in for some emergency water and a cool-off while I do some reading on how to grow successful beans and puzzle out how I'm going to make my beans grow the way I want them to for my installation.
