ARTISTS TALKING

# 185 [26 November 2008]

WEDNESDAY

exhaustion

getting the room arranged

lots of fiddly bits

planning

moving stuff about

taking stuff home 

# 184 [25 November 2008]

More burning sugar today - yesterday's batch has turned itself back into a thick, sticky, dripping syrup.

Behind the sugar store, fairies cling to the wall amongst the cobwebs.

# 183 [25 November 2008]

CHIPPER TUESDAY

Things beginning to fall into place.

Grass is up, wallflowers up. Boards on the wall.  Pebbles stuck and progressing over the floor - a track along the South Coast...

The eggs to attend to, drawings to do. 

Time for the mushroom? 

# 182 [25 November 2008]

MURKY MONDAY

Heavy rain all day - in all day - the roof started dripping.

The ladder was found - ladder relief.  Got the blank wallpaper up.  Things are looking up.

# 181 [24 November 2008]

I left the project space with a smell of burning sugar in the air today - but don't worry - it was all part of the plan. Following on from Under Ground at Hastings, I'm still experimenting with sugar, paper, wax and pollen - today it was sugar. 

I left the first of my sticky sugar papers hanging alongside my Store. I made a sticky spun sugar drawing - though in the damp atmosphere of the Store room, it will have dissolved and changed by morning. More tomorrow.

# 180 [24 November 2008]

SUNDAY

Where is the ladder? We borrowed one for 2 hours to get my bird up. But we need a ladder for these high ceilings.  

Made a rough sketch of the white bird.  Used PVA super evo bond to stick the pebbles - will they hold?

My half-made egg rolled off the windowsill where it was drying by the radiator and broke into shards.   Woe.

# 179 [23 November 2008]

SUNDAY

My storeroom has changed completely today - but more changes yet to come I think.

I've brought materials and tools back to the flat tonight to make more boxes.

STORE: noun 1 a supply, usually one that is kept in reserve for use in the future. 2 a place where stocks or supplies are kept, eg a warehouse. verb (stored, storing) 1 (also store away or store up) to put aside for future use. 2 to put something away for temporary safekeeping. adj. in store 1 kept in reserve; ready to be supplied.

(Copyright Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd 2008)

# 178 [23 November 2008]

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Working on 10 ideas. 

I learn something new about birds from my daily drawing.  Blackbirds and tits and thrushes are 'perchers'.  They have 3 toes at the front and one at the back so they can perch on twigs, fences.  

Song thrushes can start singing as early as February. 

# 177 [22 November 2008]

WE'RE ON YOUTUBE.

Our first full day at Crate today. We're settling in and reminding ourselves that the work doesn't usually fall into place straight away and trusting that it will develop over the next few days.

We've started lots of things and are uploading 60 second video clips to YouTube so you can watch our daily progress.

http://uk.youtube.com/AlderandCran

# 176 [22 November 2008]

WE ARE HERE

We've arrived and all our stuff.  Lovely spaces and plenty of heaters for such a cold weekend.

Our stuff fills half of the space.  Lots of sorting to do, lots of work to do.

Fantastic flat. 

First pictures.