My degree project is coming together:
1. I have decided on how I will use the space.
2. I have sorted out the covering – acrylic and ordered and paid for it, arranging delivery for Friday 30 May.
Today I saw Mark Lapper in the studios and explained what is happening. All OK – it has passed Health and Safety (phew)
3. I am organising the lettering- I have seen Do Not Cut The FLowers which will measure 120cm in width and are in Helvetica – like the font in the book I am showing with my work. The quotation will be in italics and measure 120 cm too.
4. I have painted all my walls and most of my co-exhibitors space too.
5. The post cards which will be with the book on a plinth have arrived – looking suitably bloody… The book arrives soon too.
6. I have even washed and cleaned down a table that I want to leave my work on so that the examiners can peruse my other prints , and hopefully see how I arrived at my degree show piece…
Now I am just left with a few regrets about works I didn’t finish…
My wooden struts, which looked to me like Patriarchs, haven’t moved on from their clustered state. But perhaps that is a metaphor for how I see the Patriarchal State – in terms of:
cronyism, hostility, inertia
Perhaps these wooden struts are my Patriarchs.
So what shall I do with them?
Burn them?
Perhaps I should do an installation bonfire. Not at uni – (imagine what Health and Safety would do…) but at home – in my garden:
A ritual burning, a promise, an incantation for Challenge and Change.
