new PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION

In the past couple of weeks I have discovered TRUE LOVE…

yes – it’s welding.

I am currently on the AA2A (artist’s access to Art college) scheme at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. This gives 100 hours of access to equipment and technical help and is a really brilliant opportunity.

With the availablity of equipment that I have never had and am unlikely to have again, I am compelled to make the most of everything and HAD to have a go with the plasma cutter and the MIG welding machines. I have endeavoured to approach this somewhat intimidating equipment with the same principles that I apply to working with discarded clothing and old rollerskates.

In contrast to my usual pace of work, welding offers an immediacy and what feels like a greater commitment, that I have not experienced before. Somehow it just seems so much more serious to be working like this. Which is something that seems appropriate when returning to crosstitch.

Still thinking about excessivity I have been trying to sort out my ‘question’ with which to apply for a phd. How do I fit in everything…… EVERYTHING that I need and want to know into one consise and to the point question? I have written and rewritten, tied myself into 50 thousand complicated crochet knots and gone completely round the houses and back through the front door to pretty much where I started.

Which brings me to the point – how do you talk about humour without

a) deconstructing things until they are no longer funny

or

b) not being taken seriously?

Yesterday I went to a very interesting workshop and as part of the ‘where you are now’ bit we had to decide where we were on the ‘Blob Tree’. Everybody’s resonse was revealing. My little blob person was the one having the most fun but was s/he getting anywhere?

How do I use the rope to climb the tree? and keep the smile on my face?