Another Delay:
I don’t want to turn this blog into another one about waiting. My other blog called ‘The cooler King’
was all about waiting…….Waiting for this project to start, and I describes in a veiled way the reasons and scenarious that prevented it from moving forward. So again I am at another impasse.
I did unofficially visit the site for these mosaics, and was a little shocked at the site preparation. I spoke with the clerk of works about it, who asked me how to fix it, and then said it was always a temporary subase and now you have told us what is required we can do it properly to your spec.
Why not do it to the right spec the first time ?
The local council seemed to have refused to adopt the mosaics after the 12 months guarantees I agreed to in my contract with the developer.
So I have a set of mosaics no one wants and a site that I can’t install them on.
But I have been paid according to my contract thus far.
So it is out of my hands again and I don’t want to write another blog about waiting.
But I have started my next large mosaic for Nunhead (the one with more than half a dozen design re-works). Having said that I am extreamly pleased with it and think it will be great. It is based on the idea of an oriental rug. These persian type rugs show history, heritage and cultural stories in the motifs developed in their patterns. Using that idea I have designed a Nunhead Rug for the Green. Persian rugs are portable and you can unroll them on the green and have a picnic on, eating with your famliy and friends, but also with your ancestors and their stories and a collective history. My Nunhead Rug may not be quite so comfortable to sit on and you wont be able to roll it up after the sandwhiches, but I hope it has the same cultural value.
So….. I am still in the cooler making mosaics. But this blog is really about the x7 Bicester Mosaics and as a result of the delay I have decided to finish this blog here.
