Space is getting whiter and brighter by the miniute! made some pretty handy 'hurdles' to attach my scrolls, there was the problem of a brick wall but not anymore!
the boarding tema have finally left our space so can get on with the work, and my photos arrived from Ilford, so can get them mounted and framed tomorrow… oh joy. Back in the workshop.
But I love me grey.gray :)
The partitions are up, but the boarding team kindly left all their tools in my space, so couldn't get as much done today as I wanted. But the grey/gray wall is looking swell:)
Today has been an angry today, degree shows bring out the worst in 'peoples…
But to soften the blow, it was a lovely sunny day and ate ice cream in the sun, and to top it off my boyfriend brough a picnic in for my tea so I could carry on painting!
i also discovered my 3rd year helper! Hurrah! I have help, so hopefully can finish cleaning up the space and get back to writing my scrolls!
oh the mirrors came, got replacements when I put on my 'no nonsense' tone of voice when they said they could get me new ones by the 9th (assessment is the 7th)
Go team kamera!
day 3: the wall is now gray/grey (however you prefer to spell it).
Floor scrubbed: 3 times
walls sanded: 3 so far
darkroom painted: 2 coats
tripods waxed: no wax in B&Q
No. of Mirrors purchased: 2 but got phone call they are now broken!!!!!!
Day 2 of the degree show preperation… duh duh duhhhhhh! (dramatic sound) I am in my new space…
You forget the mammoth task which is ahead before you can even begin finishing (or in my case starting) the work you want to present! I am most grateful for a couple of my friends who were willing to get down and dusty with me!
Hired a car which Gump could drive and we went to B&Q but alas, the mirror wardrobe doors that I was looking for were out of stock, so off we went to the next B&Q along the Kingsway, only to end up out of Dundee, pretty much in Invergowrie!!! Oops! Eventually met our destination, only for them to be also out of stock! There was a glimmer of hope as they told me Perth had 3 in stock, so into the car park to make a telesales, only for them to tell me after waiting for infinity on hold, that they too are now out of stock! Who knew so many people in the Tayside area would be needing cheap B&Q value mirrored wardrobe doors!!! Damn you!
Thought best to cut my losses short, and head back to the studio, where there was sanding, scrubbing and painting to be done. Thank you Brian for the amazing sanding job on the wall of rubber (?) As a treat, when we were being thrown out we went to get ice cream and drove to the beach! yahoo! And double surprise, went to the ice cream place, saw really cool sundae glasses behind the counter, and enquired if they were for purchase! Lo and behold, they are replacing them with fancy handblown glass thingys, so he gave me 2 for FREE!!!! Good things come to those wait (also could be he felt sorry for the girl covered in dust, paint and somwwhat dragged through bush hair!)
Have spent almost a month in the wood workshop… and I'm still there. The trifids are looking good though, that what I'm calling my tripods, with their three legs and one eye, look rather alien-like!
I'm all rather pleased with myself, though I still hammer in nails squint and drill at awkward angles, thus producing awkward angles!
Still nowhere on these scrolls, the whole conceptual ideals have gone out the window long ago, and now I'm merely attempting to mass produce, I kinda hate that it's evolved like that.
The point of producing work in a process form that conserved the durational time and allowing a spaces to be formed has lost all meaning now… makes me a bit sad that setting up for the degree show has reduced it to this. But in order to get the degree, it must be done.
BA (Hons) Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practices (2008) Master of Fine Art (2009)
