Post Industrial Revolution Gdansk residency

so we did it

today i was towed around the shipyard island on my cardboard ship, and didn’t sink. there was a bit of a dodgy bit where i was relaxing and taking in the amazing view, going past all the massive ships n cranes and decided to take a photo with my phone, at which point it got a bit choppy and the ship took on some water. so after that my phone stayed in my pocket and i bailed out with my shoe. we made it for a full lap of the shipyard island intact.

hoorah

for the last week wifi internet has been hard to come by in the wyspa office so i have been leaving my computer at the house, hence no blogging. but i now have 5mins and the use of someoneelses pc.

i have a row boat in the project space and have almost turned it into a ship. just waiting on 2more rolls of gaffa to make it more attached. so whilst i am waiting i am gonna make a ship name of more cardboard to stick on, statek pomnik – monument ship. i hope to make the film this saturday, tho the boat fella is now not answering the phone.

things on a personal level have turned a bit tricky, i have the most incredible wisdom tooth infection for which i went to the dentist and got antibiotics for, but it feels worse today + there has been a huge row at home with kids n partner so i am spending most of my evening on the phone being diplomatic.

i feel ill & guilty.

phew, i got somewhere today. i went on a small boat trip round the shipyard and did some filming to test the idea out. it was truley awesome going so close to the huge ships and oil rigs that are being worked on. i had a big grin on my face. the boat fella thinks he knows of a row boat that i can use so is gonna ask his friend, otherwise he has an inflateable boat that he is ok with me using. the only trouble is is that i am leaving it a bit late, installation is on the 31st. ive gotta make a ship to put on the boat, film it being towed around the shipyard island, edit the film and move the white cube. phew again.

the rekkie boat trip for today has been put back til friday as their boat is not ready yet. and i have no photos of boats i could use yet too. humph. i want to start making.

i was thinking of deassembling the white cube and reassembling inside our exhibition space but we cant get it apart so my plan C is to move it outside the double doors and project from inside onto the cube. gonna need lots of helping hands to roly-poly it tho.

missing home.

the white cube has been delivered, so very exciting. lots to sort out and do – my list is getting bigger & Bigger. time seems to be going quickly so far.

the boat tour people have their boat sailable this week and have promised to email me with picture of row bats & prices so that seems on track.

we went to museums night on saturday, most of the museums and galleries are open til 1am and the whole city was full of really long queues to get into the history museums. the art galleries were really quite busy too. a good thing.