I went up to Goldsmiths this week to discuss an installation proposal with Katy Bevan from the Crafts Council. It has all happened very quickly, a late request to put something forward galvanised me into pulling together some of the threads of thought around the next stage of the Loom project that have been gathering…I want to begin creating structures now out of text ribbons containing answers to questions within various public contexts. I realise this sounds vague and once I know about the outcome of this commission I am going to post my proposal on this blog…and deconstruct how it evolves into a final piece. Prof Janis Jefferies, my mentor on the project and Julie and Margaret from the Constance Howard Centre team were all there to support me in the meeting and I felt very strongly supported at what is an early stage of a potentially large project (the scale of audience is about 10 times anything else I have worked with). This is a new experience and it is such a strengthening element this year to be workng within a specific context such as this, it seems I am somehow more visible.
