The various piles of easels, desks and chairs are slowly piling up in corridors which means people are slowly finishing up practical work and moving out of their spaces!! This is making me panic slightly as I still have one drawing to finish and really hoped to get a full days work on it today but have ended up spending the day everywhere but in my studio!
After my tutorial I ended up in the workshop making a handout rack out of mdf, so after a pretty bad attempt at cutting a curve with the bandsaw I did the whole 'wash dishes badly' routine… the trick in our workshop is look puzzled and scratch your head and from somewhere a man will appear and do it for you! Some girls may be slightly offended by this (and I'd normally be one of you!!) but with one day to go until installation I was more than happy to throw in my towel and admit that girls cant use hand-tools if it meant saving some time! So now, thanks to John, I have a rather nifty piece of joinery!
I then ended up in the IT suite re-editing my worm/feather film AGAIN, this time with sound. I'm a bit concerned how it will turn out. I have filmed worms moving around on a layer of feathers, its bizarly therapeutic to watch. The worms wriggle and squirm in a rhythmic fashion. The patterned feathers they lie on bunch up and shove to and fro. I love seeing the different textures of the two and the questions it raises narratively with the worms embracing and thriving upon the remains of a previous adversary. I intend to build the dvd and projector into one of the walls of my space and drill a viewing slot. Hopefully this will give the impression of looking into a box of worms… I'm excited to see how it turns out… hopefully it will be great!
