It’s getting down to the wire now, assessments are next week, but there won’t be much time to do anything as we have to install our work on tuesday and wednesday before hand in. It means this weekend is going to be a madfest of loose papers.
After helping transform the studio space into gallery space and staying up late writing, I fear that I am starting to resemble a rank smelling, foot dragging zombie. Complete with gurgling noises. I think this weekend I’ll try the hunchback with bloodshot eyes look.
Somehow managed to make a few more stuffed fabric figures, and I even figured out how to stand them upright. They have bottoms! They have zips! They have bottoms with zips! Degree show here I come. Lets just hope there is enough space for everyone to be happy with where they end up. I’m afraid of what next week might become, 75 baboons fighting over one ripe banana. Maybe I can find a zookeepers outfit before then….
I can’t believe how insanely busy I have been the last two weeks. In the midst of all the chaos, I have been acting very unlike myself. Today I went to pay for something, and thought I had lost my card. I spent 5 panicked minutes searching through my wallet, only for the cashier to gently tell me I had already placed it in the machine. Yesterday, I somehow forgot to bring home my bag with my all important memory stick and my £300 bursury cheque. I realized about 4 hours later that I had a metaphorical missing limb, and had to scramble back across town to collect it. Luckily all was safe. And to top it all off, I decided to cut my own fringe last week, due to lack of money and time. Thanks to overconfidence in my creative hairdressing skills, I now officially look as though I have escaped from the looney bin. At least my outside now matches my inside. However, even with all the madness, I seem to be getting things done.
I had an exhibition crit at the end of last week, and it was incredibly helpful. I have a much clearer vision of what I am going to have in the degree show, and how I can best present it. It does mean, however, that in between all the various things I have to accomplish, I still have a few practical things to sort out. But I do think I am not doing too badly with time at the moment. Although I am sure I will feel differently by the end of next week.
I have been making lists. Lists of lists, and sublists of my lists of lists. Time schedules, reminder notes, illegibly written questions on inappropriate papers. Perhaps I should write a proposal to be sponsored by “post-its”, or something.
I think our UWE Fine Art / Art and Visual Culture degree show webpage is supposed to go live today:
www.partypieces2011.com
Stay tuned:
More.
Madness.
Next.
Week.
