I recieved a call to say the Clerk of Works won’t be able to make the meeting in my workshop and we will need to re-schedule.
That’s fair enough. And it will give the opportunity to finish the painted map of the Wildart Trail I have still not done….I feel bad as I have been paid months ago, yet somehow just havn’t managed to do it. No-one is chasing me for it though, so I figured it was OK to leave it for a bit. It is is such a different head space doing the painted map I just have been zoned in on a different kind of task these past weeks.
Painting:I love painting. Yet really stuggling with this map! I think you have to just jump in and do it. My world of public art is very formal and things are agreed, designed and timetabled. Creativity is scheduled and typed into planning documents, ideas are time tabled and mistakes are not allowed or in the vocabulary.
This map is outside all of those criteria and ‘just tell us when you’ve done it Rob’ sort of agreement. I am not used to these flexible openended arrangements! I have waited for inspiration to come ……and it won’t…… I just have to set up and do it…..without a plan just let it take me to a new place. A ‘proper painting’ like I used to do at St. Martins ones where it feels all wrong to start and its a wrestling match untill gradually you feel its coming back and after a while your happy with it and finishing it is easy.
There… thats my plan if I needed one.
I have a mosaic flower left to do then I can crate that mosaic up and store it. I never found out how long it took to make a sparrow, because it turned out to be a ‘sedge warbler’. The sparrow is on the last one. The next one is called ‘The Old Quarry’ and has a Bull Finch.
