Still working on the Kalender production line! This All Souls issue has coincided with so many other things that need to be done, and consequently seems to have taken an age to prepare for distribution. But now all the little ‘poor souls’ are in their cellophane bags, the rubberstamping is finished and compliment slips printed and sliced up, and all I have to do is to buy a new stapler (now where did I put the old one?!!) and attach 180 little ‘souls’ to the covers.
Christmas? Ah, well, Christmas is the next festival I need to plan for … and what a good thing it doesn’t fall until January 7th according to the Julian Calendar!
The photographs here were taken by Trevor from the scaffolding tower currently occupying part of the nave of the church. He took the opportunity to grab an unusual perspective on the familiar Wood Dalling characters.
Not much to report on the ‘audience development’ front. I have to admit to feeling a bit jaded about the whole thing. However, the new Kalender is with the printer now, and I’m hoping to pick up the completed job tomorrow afternoon. In the end, I decided to focus on ‘All Souls’ rather than trying to accommodate ideas around ‘All Saints’ as well – and all in 16 pages! There was plenty of material to fill it as it was, and I’m pleased that there was room to include some full-page images.
I read Jane Ponsford’s last blog entry, and know just what she means about working surrounded by dead people – the ‘All Souls’ of the festival seem very close by when you wander round the ’empty’ church. But I’ve never felt uncomfortable there. St Andrew’s is extremely forlorn-looking at the moment with all the dust, rubble, scaffolding and moved-around furniture, but certainly all seems benign.
Putting a named cake on each of the floor brasses and photographing it was an intense experience and I hope the visual result captures something of that.
This new Kalender is about to be posted on the website:
www.world-tree.co.uk/festial
Oh yes, and feedback would be very gratefully received at:
imogenashwin[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk
