I’m now feeling a strange mix of nervousness and relief.
My work is up at Kinetica and I am really please with how it looks.
Considering the trials and tribulations that got it there the actual hanging of the work was pretty quick and easy. My nervous anticipation is now for the reactions of everybody else.
Relieved (but not yet counting my chickens) to say that my work is READY for Kinetica.
Despite many disagreements in artistic matters my wonderful father has been a dedicated assistant and without his help I would be crying in the snow somewhere by now. I feel terrible for the sleepless nights I have given him in worry about how to transport my annoyingly awkward work – he keeps wistfully saying that life would be much easier if only I painted tasteful watercolours instead of sewing holey old socks into interactive contraptions.
He may have a point.
I hardly dare think it let alone say it out loud but (whisper it) I think the snow is melting…
Having been in a state of apoplexy about not getting to London for KINETICA next week and realising that if I can’t get there i will have wasted so much money on the whole endeavour for nothing that I could cry (and money could have gone instead to my RNIB London Marathon fund) I feel a small amount of hope that it MAY be ok – as long as there is no more snow, or ice.
Living in the deepest darkest countryside has many advantages but access to the artworld is not one of them. Whilst I can get to London for a day trip the actualities of getting work there are still tricky. I have never ever driven in London – and was a little apprehensive about it without the prospect of even getting to London being like crossing the arctic. And although my home is quite near a mainish road, my studio is in a very small village which at the hint of snow is instantly cut off from all civilisation. Guess where all my KINETICA work is stored.
Looking out of the window in despair. If the snow continues like this I won’t be able to get my work to KINETICA.
No time to do a blog today – only one more work day before having to install work at Kinetica – am i ready?…….
Socially disengaged artist
