I was reading in someones blog that they wanted to record how the process of making the work affected their body. Their fingers were becoming sore from a repetetive task and that was included in the art works dialogue.
So after yesterdays Tour de France I thought that seemed a good theme to carry on with.
As it happens I have counted 9 calouses on my right hand aquired from this repetetive task. I thought they were just calouses, but after reading the knitting blog I see my own calouses in a new light. I have noticed you can still get blisters underneath the calouses. Sometimes the calous reaches an optimum thickness and it kind of starts to break up, bits drop off it and you have peel the whole thing off, it takes less than a week for a new one to form.
That is a piece of information I never thought I would ever share, but how relevant to art is it? Well I do get a sense of satisfaction at the end of a job, a feeling of achievement and that I have made something. There are alot physical and mental hurdles to clear on a job like this. The physical and mental investment make you feel it has definatley taken you the full 12 rounds.
