Admin day comes round again. It's one of those times when despite really wanting to make some work I also really, really need to do some filing, sorting and emailing. Actually I feel as if admin week is what is needed at present!
On the positive side though, I am looking forward to starting on a piece that will be temporarily sited on Littleworth Common in the woods. The armature is being made, I hope this week. I am going to be working on some smaller companion pieces too so in the next couple of days I will be making a start on them. www.papertrails.org.uk
The last couple of weeks have been mainly devoted to organising materials and events for the next period of work out in the landscape. There have been rather frustrating points where the snags implicit in a project with several partner organisation have emerged, mainly in terms of clear communications but these seem to be clearing.
Today I took back most of the schools work which left the space empty. it was sad in some ways particulrly as today three people visited the studio specifically to see their work but it was wonderful to reclaim my space.
It was interesting to see some of the new work I have been working on in a clear area. I spent quite a while this afternoon just looking and assessing things. I love working at St George's Church. It is a very calming place.
In June I have an exhibition which marks an important stage through the project and I need to not just to prepare the work but also sort much of the publicity and admin. The two activities are difficult to resolve because they both demand a great deal of time and attention. But all I want to do at the moment is make work.
The opportunity to spend time in the studio at the church has been very productive. While their work is still at the church I have been working on some peices based on the wonderful shadows cast by the forest of sculptures made by one of the school groups. I am putting these together with other shadows and traces from the woods and also from St George's. Today there were quite a few visitors and it was good to show people the work in progress and talk to them about it.
I have been out in the woods planning work and taking photos. The light is wonderful and just being in the open is so uplifting. Tomorrow I'll be at the studio at St George's Church which I also find uplifting though in a rather different way. Calmly uplifting if that not a contradiction in terms.
Spent much of yesterday despite my best intentions, phoning and emailing. I had to finalize some project dates for the Summer and sort out some publicity. I have realized since the begining of the project just how useful a curator or administrator would be. There is a danger that at the end of the year I will have learnt an awful lot about admin and press releases and how to programme in eductional elements and not have been able to make as much of the work that I really want to. The next couple of weeks I am going to devote to my work which is after all the core of the project. www.papertrails.org.uk
