A bit of a progress report:
-I’ve been to see someone at Liverpool John Moores University to see about getting some display boxes laser cut, and that is in progress. I figured that laser cutting plywood would give a neat finish and would allow me to pre-cut spaces for the LED light.
-I’m still working out how to do the animation/programming/interactivity for the digital arrows work. I’ve been to DOES Liverpool and they let me have a play with their kinect camera – however I got a bit scared of the whole programming language bit. One step at a time. I’m going to make an animation with the arrows first to see how it looks projected onto a floor and then work on the programming aspect of it. As part of this I’m currently digitising photographs of arrows, cutting them out from the background of the photographs that I took in Shanghai. I’m nearly half-way through, and that has taken a lot of hours so far.
-I’ve got some frames for my drawings, so I’m hoping to get them framed up towards the end of next week.
-I’ve had an unsuccessful proposal for one residency and one exhibition. I’ve got one more exhibition proposal pending. However, I am profiling the arrows work at Castlefield Associates ‘Show and Tell’ next Wednesday, and a meeting last week has lined me up with an exciting exhibition space to play with for July this year – more detail on that as plans get firmed up. I also need to apply to 3 community based projects to fill in the paid work and there’s another exhibition opportunity that needs a proposal making too. Getting the work out there takes as much time and energy as making it!
