Half term and the Lego wars are in full swing next door. At the moment I’m trying to get my head around a number of projects, while it’s contstantly being invaded with thoughts of what I want to make, but I know I have paying commitments that demand their fair share of attention.
Such an absorbing week though. Invasion of Privacy opened last weekend which was fine except that the sound from the video (which is particularly intimate) was drowned out by the improvised music which moved around the house throughout the evening. This has been rectified though and strangely enough the daylight seems to work better with the installation than the harsher electrical light at night.
Despite being shattered from the post preview party party which I attended across the road I lay awake all night in a wine and worry fueled state about the rather unplanned workshop the following morning. In the end it went really well and I genuinely enjoyed my time making with the children. Give me a glue gun, a stanley knife and some card and I’m happy, I just love constructing stuff.
Yesterday Laurence and I drove to Portsmouth to visit the lead artist at ARC who is helping guide us to pull together the proposal for the show next year in Salisbury. He encouraged us to be much more ambitious and gave us some hugely valuable advice. We are both getting seriously excited about this venture now, organisations have been really receptive and I can feel an Arts Council application attempt coming on. Bring it on!
