Input/Output
The last few weeks it seems to me there’s been far too much input, and very little output.
I am one step closer to the knee replacement, but I am still waiting to hear a date, but it could be as long as 18 weeks away yet. So that is sat in the back of my brain affecting all my decisions, especially when it comes to my diary.
We also had in the back of our heads the prospect of a bit of building at home. Nothing hugely drastic or too much upheaval (hopefully) just a garage conversion, to give us a utility room and a study. This means we have had to sort out all the stuff that has been dumped in there, from the day we moved in four years ago, to all the stuff we have added since. This morning the builder came round again, just to check a few things, and due to planning permission hiccups on another job, he wants to start Monday. So I guess I won’t be in the studio for a while.
I feel my brain is overwhelmed with extra information. I started looking at Substack in a bid to wean myself off Meta platforms, and signed up to do a free course to help me navigate it. So far I’ve only managed one session, but it’s available online at my own speed so I’ll get there. I’m also three weeks into Towards an Experimental Ecology of Line, an online course run by Camilla Nelson based around Tim Ingold’s Taxonomy of Lines. All very interesting, and I do need to carve out time to do that one justice, as I can already feel it will have an effect on my work and how things connect.
I’m still organising my work for the solo RBSA exhibition that will be hung at the end of this month. I say solo, but I have been given a slot to do what I like, alongside two other artists who have been given other parts of the ground floor shop gallery. I have no idea how our work will feel in the same place as it is all very different. I think that is worrying me more than I thought.
The band had the first gig of the year on Saturday. I felt a little under-rehearsed, and under-prepared but it still seemed to go down well. I believe it is still available on the instagram account of HMV Merry Hill. Also, I have now uploaded all the new songs that we recorded in Top Church Dudley onto both Soundcloud and Bandcamp.
So if you do listen, please do send feedback, we love to hear what you think. If you think it’s crap, keep it to yourself! Haha!
Meanwhile… I’m off to do some clearing, and hopefully will get some studio time on Saturday…
