I am tired! I think this is partially due to my massive intake of refined sugars over the past few weeks – I’m simply not used to it and I am sure that it is wreaking havoc with my natural blood sugar and energy levels.
Getting my work ready to deliver to the Spring Exhibition has been more time consuming than I had imagined … or perhaps I should say that I have probably been working less efficiently than I could have done – see the note above!
Sunday evening and the works are packed into their crates – which are labelled and ready for me to pick up from the studio in the car on Tuesday afternoon. I will then drive them to the gallery and hand them over. I have also written a short text providing some additional information for the guides leading public and pre-arranged exhibition talks. And I made a very short and hopefully very pedagogic film showing how to install the pieces.
I have booked a posh(ish) hotel – it’s a ll relative! – for the night after the opening. I want to enjoy the evening and not have to think about travel back to Uppsala in potentially subzero conditions … I also want to return to the gallery for the opening to the public. I am very curious to see who turns up and how it feels. I have the feeling that the opening night will, as usual, not be the best time to actually look at the exhibition so returning the day after will give me time to go around the show and even to see the exhibition in the new wing – a collection of couture garments from some of the worlds most famous houses which have been commissioned by a man and tailored for his body though the original garments were designed for a woman. I am very interested to learn more about this Swedish man with not only such a ’gender fluid’ project but the finances to execute it … will he be at the opening of the Spring Exhibition? Might he like to invest in an artwork made of ties???
