I have started working on several projects at once. Whilst this is not new – I don’t normally have so many personal pieces on the go at once. I normally have a couple of personal things and then some where there is the looming figure of a deadline making me FINISH.
This is the DANGER ZONE I know. However, as I seem increasingly to be working on things that require a sustained and very long term commitment I’m not sure that there is any other way to do it.
I have just come to the end of my current supply of labels for SPECTRUM and must take a new photo – the last one was a year ago – and as it now holds 1152 labels it should look different. I wish I had logged how many there were last year.
With new works in progress – one is waiting for lots of cardboard (not quite sure where to get this without making a spurious purchase of a new washing machine) another is waiting for me to go to RS Componants (can’t really justify a special trip) and the third was waiting for me to rescue my rusty and dusty dressmaking dummy from the loft (tick- hurrah, one at least).
As I have previously mentioned, I appreciate the meditative aspects of making these things but I am starting to think that perhaps I am creating these works as my own personal version of shoe shining and pencil sharpening – am I avoiding making things that need constant decision making – am I hiding from my own ideas under the guise of ‘labour’?
I am coming close to the point where all shoes are sparkling and all pencils pointy – what can I do to divert me now?
Apologies to Shakespeare but it may be time to ‘screw my courage to the sticking place’….
