The crit on Friday was very successful for the stage we’re at right now. The statement covers all the main points (the blogger profile has helped a lot with this!) and now just needs refining…I’ll have to send it to a few different people to get their suggestions. Although I didn’t have the video to show yet, the installation was up so everybody had a chance to visualise what it could look like, and gave me tips on how it should be filmed.
So, I was on a high point at 16.45, by 17.00 I couldn’t have been more angry. My work hangs in a crit room as my space is tiny and cluttered with bad light, and I was told that I had to take it down for the weekend. It takes so long to put up and take down, and on top of this, it becomes tangled when it isn’t hanging. Just when I thought things were going well; a good response and a camera at last, I now won’t be able to film on Monday! I’m being tested….
Just when I thought my brain was going to explode with frustration a lovely lady has helped me out with getting the equipment I need to produce my video! A day spent with an awful (stress) migraine in bed has been lightened with this news.
I have also, potentially, refined my ideas for the presentation of my work. I won’t give out details yet as I have a crit tomorrow (and it may get shot down) but I will say that like everything else I plan on doing, it’s going to be a steep learning curve!
Suffering from mid point exhaustion.
I had an imovie tutorial at work yesterday (luckily I work in a cinema which has equipment there for us to use!) which has lessened the stress slightly…now I just need to get another camera from the stores at uni and continue to practice with filming. I think I know how I want the video to look, in fact, I want two: one which remains static and another which pans around the installation.
During the periods where I can’t film I’ve been experimenting with books (these won’t be part of my degree show, but will act as supporting work). I have tried to incorporate elements of the main work by using squares which echo the ones that will be on the wall, and the spolvero is another way of using the pin pricks on the larger sheets of paper. The books are titled “October,” “November” etc and correspond to each blog post I have made on here, yet are illegible.
So Northumbria Auction 10 was last night. Overall it was a good night, although it would have been better if there had been no empty seats. I had signed up to help with payment and packaging yet I still managed to leap into the bidding and spend £100 on two artists works (five pieces in total, I keep telling myself, to spread the cost out!)
My pieces sold for £45 and £20, I was slightly teary about the lower amount (I blame the wine for that) but soon realised that a lot of people’s work went for lower than expected. I guess you can’t control an auction; who goes and how much money they bring!
Yes, it’s been a long week at uni, I’m even in the library now trying to work on my statement….I used the DVX 100 for the first time and got some (slightly shakey) footage of my installation. I now need to see how much editing I can do on it before I spend the next month practicing and perfecting!
