thursday was spent etching and the results felt better. i was after a familiar landscape, a faint hazy one that slowly dissapeared. i printed the plate four times until it was distant, only the imprint of the plate was present. the series of four i planned to show on friday, a bit last minute, but i was hoping they would dry in time.
i booked the room a week before, i knew i wanted to show some work as i had some from the summer that i needed to see. it helps to look at stuff outside of the studio space, to get feedback from others and to see if or how it works outside of my head.
the trouble was i had run out of hard drive just after i had booked the room so i invested some of my student money in a terrabyte, which didnt arrive until wednesday. this meant my video editing was more than a bit behind. i stayed up til the early hours of friday editing and burning, and in the end left it running. it had an error and was sitting there with an ejected disk when i found it in the morning .of course. plan b… take original edit of films and video camera to play the soundtrack.
collected projectors, etchings and keys for room, and ran around. i was planning to use two projectors running running two halves of the film in sequence, one would stop and the other would then start. the projector playing from the laptop did not want to work .of course. plan b…play one film
in the end it was worth it. i was happy with the way it worked together as a room, the feedback was interesting and useful, and although it didn't really 'work' i have more of an idea how it would.
the films and sound track burned without any errors over the weekend .of course.
