A New Look for Public Toilets in Dover
As I messed up my last blog….. I thought I might just pick this one up instead……seems a very relevant title for a blog and there will always be something current in my practice that fits.
So: A New Look for Public Toilets in Dover.
This was the title of a document I put together after being asked to submit something in the way of ideas for Dover Town Council. Now I’m sort of tongue in cheek when I submitted this document, as it was inspired by Hundertwasser and I have been a great admirer of his projects for many years. In the past I did make myself unemployed for a while by submitting proposals and tenders inspired by his work. As soon as I stopped being inspired by him I started winning commissions again. So when I submitted this ‘visioning document’ I had dismissed it the day I emailed it off.
Shit the bed….they only feckin said…. ‘yeh great lets do it’.
To cut a long story short I am working on site in public lavatories with builders, plummers, electricians, tilers and carpenters on a refurbishment programme. This would be described as site work not studio based remember and today the water has been turned off. The power has been switched on-off-on-off all day as the electrians were in and the floor has been just been tiled so you can’t walk on it, the door had a trestle in front of it so you can’t open it because someone is working on the guttering. And when the power is on the sensor on the lights is faulty making them go on and off like a slow strobe light. They get in each others way, they have to block each other off as access to stuff is inevitably probematic, as a result they can’t reach their tools, they have to time and rotate their work to where no-one else is working. Just to mention a few of the obsticles going on. These guys work in these conditions on a daily basis and its routine..They are a team, they all know each other very well and have worked together for years……….. What they want to see is how an ‘artist’ deals with the situation.
I’ll tell you tommorrow or may be the next day!
