THOUGHTS
1. The stones haven’t grown, I might need to be a bit more scientific about providing the right conditions for life to start.
2. The job is fine. Today is my day off at the end of week 2. 10 weeks to go. I was very shocked at first to find that nobody talks about, let alone thinks about art at work, at all, ever (it seems). It made me suddenly realise that I do live in a rather privileged art bubble most of the time. The good news is that at the end of my job in August I should be fine to pick up where I left off.
3. Mentoring is on hold because my art work is on hold while I’m working full time. It will be great to meet up with my mentor, maybe in early September, to talk about how things might have changed after a long break from making work and how to move forward.
4. Perhaps I might use some of my hard earned wages for a trip to Leeds to explore the art scene up there for a couple of days and maybe try to meet some Midlands artists. And maybe a trip to Venice…
5. I’m having second thoughts about applying for the Stanley Picker Fellowship as I don’t think I’m working at the right level yet – the job description talks about artists working at national and international levels, so that’s not me. Maybe something to work towards.
6. Today I’ve been preparing for my talk to graduating students at Brighton on Friday. I loved choosing images for my presentation. Such a lot of work I’ve never shown. I must make it a priority to continue re-visiting and re-viewing and pulling out stuff which is still important.
