lunchtime Friday. fish eaten and tea yet to be made.
prep of space continues at markeaton street. i plan to next go in on monday, gum stripping and rubbing down.
meanwhile, consolidation of journals/research/professional practice module continues in earnest.
i’m taking the weekend off and going to the south coast. i’ll be in brigton on saturday, wonder if anything of cultural significance is happening in brigthon.
i’m going to miss being around those i’m usually being around. as hard as that is, i feel it’s the best thing for this weekend, i’m liable to become a degree bore this weekend, doing it with friends who have not had much exposure to my process will give me the space to explore what i’ve been doing, having done that, i hope i can get back to informed happy semblance, and become fun to be around again, mostly for my own sanity.
time for tea.
after a recent coffee catch up, do you fancy taking part:
paul, here's a link for the 'dust collects' track i told you about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8YoLwsg-nc
met my first year helper today, i was impressed at here listening ability and ability to ask questions and generally sound really positive about the work I’m about to mount.
we’ve had another meeting in the spaces, I’m working in the same space as a self appointed ‘very angry person’ so that is bound to flare up at some point as I will stop agreeing with everything she says very soon.
while waiting there has been some physical engagement with the spce from my good self. i removed the blu tack and flakey paper. well, everything has to start somewhere.
my biggest concerns are with the journals and my career in practice stuff. i was recommended to make an overview or something to make the research understandable in 10 minutes. i could make a video explaining it all, however i don’t really have the capacity to do that justice at the moment, so it’ll be in the form of a book.
i’m anticipating this blog becoming a space to let go of stuff i may not have been able to say out loud, so in advance of that, please bare with me, i am making all of this up as i go along now.
oh and it’s green tea for the foreseeable future.
feeling loads happier today.
the dissertation marks have been returned: i’ve passed, well pleased.
responded this afternoon to the call for catalogue details. i’ve now set a size for my piece of sculptural new media. that feels good too. coincidentally, two of the dimensions are the same as the hall in my 1906 terrace house.
yesterday went and shot the action for inclusion in the final show. that’s been a big weight off my mind. I really didn’t appreciate how under it I’ve been. happily under it and it’s lifting a bit, I have more space to be happy.
this afternoon i’ve had the piece set up in my hall, got me thinking about studio space.
and this morning we all cleared furniture from the fine art space in markeaton. i was feeling boingy and happy. it was noted and i smiled.
i’ve got a cup of tea.
I’m feeling disappointed.
so I’m taking some time out to work through the disappointment.
what happened? i’ve been catching up on my visits journal, selecting, processing and printing images made by me and a camera. laying out the images I’ve discovered the stickyness of the ink catching on other images. a few now have remnants of other images. wow – now I’ve typed this up, I can see the benefits so it’s not so bad.
what is bad though, and I’m not sure if I’m alone here, is an uncomfortable feeling at printing out images that subsequently become altered and potentially unusable. something for me to consider at another point.
and in other news. we had a lovely young man come visit us today, so sweet in his attitude. he had a lovely camera and took photos of our work for inclusion in the catalogue. I was so surprised he didn’t have more equipment, he was very good with his light meter, very natty, it had a little turny round thing on top. very lovely.
I’m going to the knitting circle now.
