Right then, better get on with it.
I wrote a big list of things I’m going to need, and things I want to make before the exhibition…a small thing, a medium sized thing that will probably be a bit tricky, then I should really finish the great big quilt that I started and that got put down with the wrist injury and hasn’t been picked up since… I should finish it, because much of the conversation about the latest body of work has been about scale. My other textile pieces are sort of hand sized. The quilt is body sized. Those measures are significant too I think. The small pieces have taken one day each(ish) to make. The quilt probably one year.
I’m going to pick it up and sort it out this evening. Once I get going on it and the obsessive/addictive thing kicks in, it’ll be done in no time!
I keep telling Bo it’s his turn to write here. I do try not to nag. Nagging is futile. He doesn’t believe in turns. He’ll do it if he wants to. At the moment he doesn’t want to. That’s fine… I think I said somewhere at the beginning of this that I talk lots of rubbish and Bo talks a little bit of sense. Interesting that the same ratio of rubbish:sense exists in writing as well as in the real world!
I think it is interesting reading back over the year… I think I had a clear idea about how I wanted this to be, including the blog. It hasn’t been like that, because of course, Bo is a different person. I let it go. That’s a bit of a first for me, I am on occasion, a bit of a control freak. I think I have learned to accept that this is how it is. That has been easier to accept, because I know that Bo is doing some really great exciting work. Some he shows me, some he keeps to himself for a while. There are still links in the work, and there are still some pieces where you can’t tell if it’s Bo’s or mine, or both at once, the joins don’t show. But it also follows two distinct and developed paths of research and interest. I now cannot wait to see it all together… to see the patterns and paths that link the work… and the new ground we’ve both found too.
