Yesterday was spent travelling to Leeds to get some work done at the 'Film Lab North'. I can only recommend them highly. They are also £75 an hour cheaper than the equivalent lab in Soho. (Which is only useful for you to know if you live in equal proximity to both.)
I have had my cine film digitized using a machine that costs 1 million pounds. Now THAT is madness. But if you had seen it you would bellieve it. A massive, really absolutely massive piece of equipment.
So here goes thanks to Mark and Glenn from the Film Lab North who charged me for an hour, even so I was actually there for 2! And like as if that wasn't already enough they lent me their hard-drive to take the digitized work home with me (there had been a glitch and I hadn't been told to bring mine, which nearly cost me the remainder of my already dwindling bundle of nerves..). I am flattered to be so trusted.
I saw the Quay Brothers's Euridice in the Leeds ARt Gallery. In one word: Inspiring.
I got ideas for another project, a poetic quiet, beautiful project. So there is my work planned until pretty much mid autumn..
This morning I met with carpenters to discuss my quixotic race against time to pull the 7 Giants back out of the abyss they fell into last week. We will start building this afternoon. Thank heavens for lucky connections.
So I had to compromise: we will make a skeletal framework out of timber and I will clad the hut part of it in cardboard.
I looks like I will be able to get help to make 3 Giants and then will have to get on with it alone after that. Oh but what a help.
Another urgent job for this week will be to source reclaimed timber, I would like the Giants to have patina, but with the increasing time limitations I may have to compromise yet again. Unless I can patina them myself in one way or another.. Some wood stain?
Will think this one out in the following days.
SO now I best get on with one of many of the jobs for the other two exhibitions, while I wait for the carpenters to re-appear.
Progress: shaky but improving.