Origin Interactive: Crafting Space

THE SLOW BUILD OF STEEL..
Been working at willows studio in South Bermondsey this week. They know Willow well but I think the roofers in the unit opposite are quite amused at Raphaella (my production manager ) and I , small women, toiling with steel mesh – measuring, cutting, bending… Well, as Willow says, I am a 'soft machine', she a hard one. She is at home with this material and can work for days at it, I struggle , but it's good to feel my hands and sweat have touched the basic structure of the final work (we have been making the wall sections). I think this collaboration between hard and soft- steel and textile, is a powerful one and has its own momentum. Ideas flow, as does the miso soup to give us strength. I spent the night here a couple of times, only the third time I have done that since Moses was born. Have had to do a lot of expressing milk, it reminds me of my other current purpose in life , and the combination of adrenalin and oxytocin is an intoxicating if exhausting one.