This was the studio last week – all lovely and empty and nearly perfectly white. It feels so spacious and clean. However now its absolutely packed, completely chaotic and I'm not sure how on earth we're all fitting into it ! Its all a bit stressful. I am a very focussed person – a hangover from being a lawyer I think – so find this all rather difficult. Its all a bit out of control. I'm sure its one of those things that comes together in the end but aaaargh ! The bit of wall I had been allocated turned out to be far too far away from where my plinths can be so I've had to get another one made – bless the great people in the workshops for knocking one together for me at very short notice. I havn't seen it yet but they've called it the 'Hilton' – after the notorious new tower block in Manchester. This makes me slightly nervous now as to whether I've ordered it too tall…..but suppose I can lop off a bit. I'm also worried that my little books are going to be completely swamped by the work on the wall beside them – Sam has done some fantastic drawings of animals but they are really enormous & striking and I think might just tower over my tiny pieces in comparison. We'll see. There's scope to move things around before the degree show anyway. Penultimate day tomorrow of installing. Deadline is Wednesday – and we still havn't had our journals back with comments. I think its very unlikely that any of us will have the time at this really late stage to make any significant revisions….I have no idea why this is happening so incredibly close to the deadline. Ours not to reason why….do creativity and organisational ability rarely go together ?
