Finally made it! Show was amazing; very well attended. The week leading up to it was extremely hectic, however, the setting up went smoothly. It was fairly straight forward for me to put up my paintings, the most difficult part is selecting which paintings to leave in and which to take out. The only other job for me was setting up the books in a glass case to stop them from being touched. Some people however, like Julie and Carol, had quite a job setting up their installations. Everyone has rallied around to create a wonderful show. All that is left to do now is gather all the written and supporting work together for the assessments tomorrow. I have to stop off at the library in the morning to get a copy of May’s edition of the an Magazine with my image on the front cover of the Degree Unedited 2009 suppliment because mine went missing last week from 121. Life never runs as smoothly as we want.
I feel on the whole, my paintings have been resolved this week. My worry towards the end of the week was that I could have overworked them and that would have led to a loss of quality held within them. My books are all finished, the book from Utah has been returned. However we are not able to display the Utah books for the degree show due to them being displayed at The Liverpool Book Fair before the degree show is finished. This is a great disappointment to me because the book tied in with my core work. Not to worry though as it will be on display for the assessment. Going back to my paintings, I feel they have a moody quality to them. The colours have become darker and darker during the painting and layering process, but this is deliberate to make use of the light captured within them. The paper lithograph figure of my daughter Amelia have blended in well with the oil and I hope they will be dry tomorrow for hanging. Towards the end of the week I gave Caz and Julie a hand to get their work finished. We had a great time woking together. Everyone has been so supportive of each other. It's going to be hard getting back to normal after these intense last few months.
