WORKSHOP 6TH MAY
It feels like we are moving on now; things are coming together. It no longer feels like a mountain still has to be climbed. One mosaic is finished; a second is looking good, getting there, a third is about half way and the fourth, well, it’s just beginning! I have decided to concentrate on four mosaics in total. Five would be pushing it.
An important reason why I am feeling optimistic is because after many weeks of my very attentive and marvellous manager Frances making enquiries with no positive results, suddenly I have found a builder who is willing and able to cast the concrete for me, this week, no less! And the price is most definitely right. He is going to use recycled glass as the aggregate and other green products, which is also good news. Martin picked up the fibre glass mould today to start casting the “tops” and is coming on Saturday to cast the bases on site, which is prefect timing as I am running the last community workshop there that day, so people will be able to look at the designs, the mosaics and the concrete being prepared and hopefully properly understand what will be installed very soon. I still have to secure a tiler, but I now have a couple of hot numbers in my pocket! The plan is to allow the concrete as long as possible to go off (about 4 weeks in this scenario) and then come back to oversee the tiling, which could be fairly complicated. This is because the shape of the structures is quite demanding given that they need to be clad seamlessly with many composite parts of mosaic. It is especially challenging because I do not have the full polystyrene forms to practice on, so in a sense I am doing my best to calculate the exact size of every piece, however I will not know what they will look like until the structures are in place, which will happen after all the tiling has been finished. I am confident they will look good in the space.
