Serious feeling of impending doom… why do we have our degree show so much earlier than the whole country?!?!
Went to see the curator talk at the DCA today for the new exhibition that opened later that night, Ellipsis, and there was a free screening of L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni. It was wonderful, such evocative cinematography, and it was in Italian, mmm…
But one must emerge back into the real world and into the workshop. Have made 3 wooden tripods to create platforms for the pinhole cameras. They look rather swell, if a bit squint, but still need to level the feet!
Only 2 weeks to go until assessment, I still have to finish the first 10m scroll, and have 2 to go (there were originally 4 but there isn't time, seems a shame to scrifice due to time, but what can i do, better for something complete- looking that half arsed!)
At least the philosophy has begun again as i've started to edit and organise things into something 'coherent'! But nothing like the artwork. Apparently, according the noticeboard, this is a week to be finishing work, and installing next week, be out of your studio by Friday!!!!
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
It's Saturday… I'm going in…. My mission is to complete one of my 10 metre scrolls, as rumour has it, I may be getting kicked out my studio on monday even though I won't get into my space until Friday! Ya twats! Where am i suppose to make the other 3 10m scrolls now?! Two weeks to go before assessment and subsequently, the degree show follows soon after… Anyone else nervous and nausous?
Better get some reading done too, onto Derrida and Lyotard now. You guys!
aww, ya bugger! just realised that the photographic paper I won on ebay is fibre based and not resin coated, ya daftie! Well, i'll just have to teach myself what to do with it much like everything else that i've been doing with pinhole photography.
Passed a benchmark today, with 2 cameras almost fully assembled and light-tight! I'm not sure who's more excited, myself or John! mind you, the 4th camera (or Kamera) is really his baby, not mine. It's way too cool and funtionable!
Still way behind handprinting my scroll. i think I have to rethink how I'm doing this, the whole idea of taking images 'performing' is taking far too long. I may just have to scrap it and put it in the theoretical sketchbook…
Have rediscovered '3rd Rock from the Sun', brilliant!
http://fineart.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow.jsp
It's toooo soooooonnnnn…..!!!!!!
Nice poster though, nice and spring like.
Golly gosh, there isn't much time left now! I'm squeezing in this reflection time in the lunchhour before heading back down to the workshop. John has become my new best friend! Everyday he comes up with another idea or another twist to make my life easier! Whata guy!
They are looking sooper dooper, and i'm getting to grips with all these power tools, but all this sanding is giving me one very muscular right arm, and my left arm is becoming increasingly docile… time to switch!
As for these scrolls I had the dumbfounded impression I could do in the time available…. it's taken 4 hours (in total-i'm timing myself) to do 1.5metres (approx) of 40 mertres!!! Why am I going so slow!? At this rate, they won't be done in time for assessment… you do the maths!
By the way, do remember Tab clear, the soft drink? Apparently just saying that, I'm showing my age!
