Under pressure
I’ve had a couple of emails from The Chapel Gallery this week, asking for images of my work for the Land Sea Sky exhibition, opening in September. Although I’d already send them images of the prototypes and a full description of how the installation will look, they want to see the work NOW so that they can plan the layout.
This has been such a stressful week trying to get something together for them.
What I normally do before I install something like this, is take a full week off work about a month before, so that I can work continuously on it. Unfortunately, my ‘scheduled’ week off isn’t for another 9 days and I REALLY can’t take an extra day or two off now.
Since getting the emails off them, I’ve spent every night this week, after work, cutting out and putting pieces together in the hope that I would have something to show them today. I made five ‘hot air balloons’ and everything that could gone wrong, has done – probably because I’ve been rushed. I’m hoping by showing images of those 5, they can sort of imagine what 100 would look like.
Although working on them now has made me aware of the design problems ahead of time, I’m not sure how long I can keep going doing this while in full time employment. There must be an easier way!
