Paper Trail/Paper Trial

I am feeling a bit more confident now that the work is going to happen. I managed to put a few good hours into the cutting and the map is beginning to transform. You can see how the folds seem to disappear when the paper is cut away from the streets. The cutting is monotonous in its action but as I am forced to only work on it a few hours (or less) at a time I am finding myself getting quite excited each time I get it out to do some more. I am ambivolent about working like this, sometimes I find it so hard and against my natural desire to make a mess or mud-pies, and yet…its sort of like scratching an itch – you start and you want to keep on doing it.

Having proposed this work and been given the go-ahead from the artsdepot I seem to have found my self torn between a variety of necessary but very different activities. Trying to find schools that are willing to participate and help in my quest for paper, raising the profile of the project locally (local libraries, local press) and actually doing some of the work itself, (let alone officially entering the 21st century and starting this blog!) It’s hard to know which is the most urgent and prioritise appropriately. However – if there is no work then there is no project… Back to it!