The irony in all of this.
I started this blog to cover a long period of time where I thought I would be working on a series of 7 mosaics. I thought I might be in the cooler for 6-7 months, possibly longer, day in day out working on them. The reality has turned out very differently, I don’t know if you read Julie Dodds blog; Day to Day Life www.a-n.co.uk/p/648002but my life is very similar, in that everything going off in all directions. I have 3 public art projects running simultaneously at different stages of development. My time is spent co-ordinating, administrating, accounting, driving and running workshops etc ect.
Documentation is also a large task as many commissioners request project blogs to accompany the project and within the fee, time is allocated for this kind of documentation. I have 2 of those types of blogs running at the moment. I have my own main website/blog to keep up to date http://rob-turner.blogspot.co.uk/ Twitter; I keep tweets to a minimum and under use the potential of this platform. Facebook…..not even got an account. I have this blog which is a bit free form and rudderless and I also have my ‘Over the Golf Course blog, which I thought would provide a release valve while I spent months in the cooler. I thought it might act as the exercise yard for a prisoner, providing a welcome blast of fresh air. I thought I would be able to generate non commissioned more personal artworks through that blog, providing a balance in my artistic outputs! A lot of time is spent on digital photography maintaining this level of documentation.
Wales has had torrential rain and the site preparation has been delayed, so part B of my poetry project The Taliesin Stones is delayed. This actually turns out to be a good thing. About 5-6 weeks ago I had a tantrum on this blog about indemnity insurance, well Southwark Council have agreed that I dont require it after all, and my Mosaic Map of Nunhead can go ahead and I’ve been paid to start.
The irony of all this is that I started this blog fearing my sanity due to isolation in the cooler. Looking back I actually enjoyed working in there on the Taliesin Stone and really want to be in there to make this mosaic map. But with so much other stuff its impossible to get in there at the moment. I dare not even ask what happened to the original 7 mosaics project, as I could not make them if I was asked.
