I have looked at my designs for this series of mosaics today. I have to modify the lettering which I will start tommorrow. I am looking at them and thinking they will challange me big time. It’s so easy uploading drawings to cloud computing sites and creating links and saying this is my next project. Really looking at them and trying to think of ways of interpreting what is drawn using tiles is a little scary. What is of most concern is the scale I showed my neighbour Geof today these designs and he asked me how big they were? ‘1.2m square and there are seven in the set’, I replied. ‘They are big’, he said ‘how long do you think it will take,?
I dont remember my reply, but I do remember thinking they’re not big. I specified the size as well. The classic dilema where less than seven would not have the impact on the site. Seven is a lot so I cant make them too big with the budget avilable. I dont want make it an under paid job..But now I wonder if I had made them bigger would they be a lot easier to make?
May be over the years I have become formulaic with my style and approach and these designs will actually force me into creative interpretations and translation techniques? I feel nervous and wish the contract thing was sorted. I need the money for the design and concept work completed so far. This is not comfortable and my sentance is hanging heavy around my neck today. I know for every day lost at this end I am unlikely to be able to add on the wasted time at the other deadline end of the project. I am restless, resentful and cornered.
On a day with flash floods in many uk towns including Ashford not that far away from where I live where the roads were temporarily rivers.
