I find myself in a very odd situation in that all of a sudden I have a complete body of work waiting inside my head. all to do now is to get it into a tangible context outside of my mind. Easy Peasy.
It seems that lots of little bits and pieces that have been hanging around as loose ends and trailing thoughts have congealed into a complex yet together plan (yes, I know it is hard to believe I am really saying this)
SO.
The emphasis must be on getting it all out as quickly as possible. Before it gets consumed by something else. Because this time it is real.
So. finally got to the studio for a WHOLE DAY yesterday. (yippeee) A festival of dead flies and neatly arranged nuts and bolts. – LOVELY.
In celebratory (and traditional) fashion I returned to my ongoing work SPECTRUM which could be classified, I have realised, as a durational work. The revelation to my poor long suffering studio partner (my Richard Briers alike father) that I would be working on this particular piece until 2020 did not go down too well. Musing that he would be 86 when it is finally finished, he URGED me to get it done quicker. Surely, he reasoned, I should be spending time on other ideas, as I do have rather a lot, and that continuing on this one piece, committing my already restricted time to something that to his eyes does not need much more work on it, seemed he thought madness.
This, as I explained to him – is largely the point.
