It’s been a long and very hot day – not good for mongolian throat warbling sounds. However the Fruitflowers are all up and look fabulous.
As would be expected it was much harder than expected to put them up but with my ever resourceful and inventive technical adviser, Hugh, we managed to work out the best way to get the work plus approx 200m of hose in the air. Cable ties are my new love.
Installation tomorrow. Today I have been putting the sound bits into the tubes and had a trying day as I have discovered that a project conceived in January in the cold weather is not necessarily the same on a hot May day. The plastic tubes are refusing to play ball. Wheras my four sample Fruitflowers worked perfectly up until the weekend they are now refusing to make the right sound.
Having put some of the ‘sound bits’ into the freezer, I have established that it is a heat issue. I don’t think there is anything I can do about this. We will have the noises that we have. They may not be quite what I had planned.
It will be a completely improvised performance.
No time to write tonight but thought I would post some of the pictures I took today of all the individual fruitflowers – really pleased with how they look together too.
I’ve been putting all the fruitflowers together today – this takes forever! Very pleased with how they are looking though and having now collected the 200m of tubing that I need to get the air into them (that I need to paint green but have no idea how) everything is coming together. One more workshop with seven more fruitflowers to complete until we have fifty.
Exciting news. I have found a conductor for the Private View/launch concert on Friday morning. By chance last summer I attended (with my children and their friends) a drumming workshop. Simon Stokes is a Drum Circle facilitator and musician. We had an amazing time at his workshop using a circle of drums and creating beats and different rhythms in groups. He will be perfect for this ‘once in a lifetime’ experience (I hope and pray it works!).
Also a local banner company has agreed to make the banner to go outside the country park for me. I love it when you find nice people.
Day two of of Brigstock workshops – putting it all together…..
Children found it very disconcerting that they left big round balls and found shrivelled things when they came back. Luckily all makes sense (relatively) at the end.
To see the rest of the pictures from the workshops (there are many) go to:
www.sophiecullinan.org/Work/StrainedFruit.aspx
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