the abject object

why oh why oh why did I tempt fate? This has not been a good weekend.

The only highlight has been winterlight…..

I haven’t posted for ages. Have over 400 pictures of shoes which I could bore you with (though they are all fab). The Global Footprint finale was amazing but I would like to save all that for another day.

With a brief interlude before the insanity of Christmas I have been trying to sort out my PLAN OF ACTION for next year. This whilst hammering in lots and lots of rivets. The kind of mindless but useful job which is perfect for physical but not mental distraction – a making meditation.

Not much can be decided as I am awaiting some news of funding which is imminant (hope I am not tempting fate by even mentioning it). So have got to have PLAN A (happy day grant granted) and PLAN B (crawling into a hole at the miserable thought of 6months wasted in proposal writing. Fingers crossed for A I think.

Oh and thank you Axis, once again I seem not to be making the right kind of work.

Well, it is Ffriday.

Quick post as lots to do, but thought you might like to see what it is like to try to put 300 shoes and shoe boxes into a volvo…..

A nerve wracking day looming tomorrow – the collection of many car-fulls of shoe boxes and attaching the shoes inside to an enormous aluminium truss to form an archway. Just hoping for good weather. (please please please don’t rain)

Today I have had a bit of a trip down memory lane, editing some clips together for a ‘club night’ that I have been helping to organise for my children’s school. I had forgotten how much I love doing silly things in an edit suite – so much fun to be have with dancing dogs! Feel quite inspired to ressurrect my ideas from last year (which have become totally overlooked) in making some films and projections – hold that thought……

So in the small bit of time I had left (when I should have been doing something much more urgent) I started preparing the materials for the partner work to

SUPERHERO GADGET (Trap 1 – Birdcage).

A latent fluroescent adolescent perhaps?

I’ve had an insanely busy week so far, with more to come! This week is the ‘making’ week of OLD SOLES. With 300 shoes to be made over the week it was never going to be restful and with a bit of a printing paper misunderstanding and logistical nightmare of artwork turnaround, I have been making daily trips to my lovely printers who have been super helpful and undestanding in the face of many many sheets of shoes. As I have previously discussed – it is finding these invaluable people that make it possible to do tricky things. They are absolutely worth their weight!

So here are a few of the finished items – I think they all look amazing, just hoping that in the interim week before performance day, the kids aren’t tempted to wear them…..