I am so touched by the generosity of fellow students coming to my help. I actually think there may be a chance of finishing now and can't thank them enough.
Head banging, elbows throbbing, back aching….spirits lifted :)
Dissertation handed in did leave me with a sense of huge relief I have to say, I have taken leave from work, Biennial have been really good about it, 3 weeks off to concentrate on college work.
It is my 40th Birthday today, I am lying in bed with an egg on the back of my head and 2 very bruised elbows from falling over backwards onto cobblestones…lovely night in A+E. The thing I have been most worried about is getting all my work finished in time. There is so much left for me to do and lifting my arms hurts, looking up is impossible and my work is nearly 8ft high. EEK, seriously worried now.
The girls from college have been fantastic and said they will rally around to help me but they will all be so busy with their own work I don't know if I can ask that of them.
Anyway, too sore to worry today, will worry tomorrow.
Dissertation nearly finished – spell checked and then saved and 'puff' as if by magic – the file disappears, matrix style into little squares falling off the screen – virus!! Argh!!!!
Had saved all research and initial bits of essay elsewhere but will have to re-write majority of it all – could only happen to me I'm sure. Have too much work to do to fall apart so onwards and upwards as they say.
My cardboard tubes arrived and the theory was put into practice and actually worked – yippeee, so I have started being arty once again which has lessened the blow of the virus.
I need to get the writing out of the way, hand in Monday then I am free to make all my fragmented explosions, can't wait. Plinths are on the way too so that part is all going according to plan at least.
Still writing – seems never ending but 1 more week is all I have before it has to be handed in – Thank Goodness for deadlines. This report could go on & on…………………….
Just watched the Big Art Project on Channel 4, it was a good start to the series, snippets of all 7 projects. I know a bit about the Sutton Colliery project as Liverpool Biennial instrumental in it's commission. The Grand Opening of Jaume Plensa's 'The Dream' is 31st May and I have been really looking forward to it only to find out this week that my son goes on his school 'away' trip the same day, I have to drop him at school at the exact same time as the opening – argh!
Will have to try & get there for the last half hour…
The TV programme was well worth a look tho.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-big-art-project/catch-up#2917570
Midnight and I had just decided to go to bed when I started reading people's degree blogs – 1am and here I am. I must be a glutton for punishment, I'm up at 6am with the kids..yawn.
Anyway – quick update. I have been and ordered the wood for my 10 plinths £200….eek BUT they are mdf not chipboard and so will look very grand when painted up. Hopefully my lecturer may buy them off me for an exhibition he has over the summer….fingers crossed.
Also decided to order the cardboard tubes, I have spent weeks making maquette after maquette and full scale wooden frames in which to make the exploding books but as they are so utterly fragile none of them have worked when I have tried to move them.
The cardboard tubes are hugely expensive at £250 for ten but seem to be the only way forward and so it must happen. That's what we get our student loans for after all.
This is turning out to be a very expensive final project but I am hoping it will be worth it when finished.
I went to the Williamson Art Gallery to re-measure – thankfully – as the books were going to be 8ft each high on 3ft plinths hanging 2ft from the ceiling – the one and only doorway into the gallery is only 7.5ft high and my work needs to stay completly upright when moved! I am so pleased I double checked; so now the plinths are raised half a foot and the books are lowered half a foot and all should be well.
This week I am going to finish my dissertation while I wait for all my deliveries then next week onwards will be artful construction – I can't wait.
