Been working hard, but nothing to show for it. So I’ll show you some piccies from Saturday, the ReOrsa happening that overtook Bracknell. The photos are of my piece – a woven staircase, but check out the whole thing on www.reorsa.org. An artist-led initiative.
Started at 11am, up by 2.30pm, down again by 6pm. Did it really happen? I felt like I had the mother of all artistic hangovers the following day, with not a drop of pernod in sight.
This was my favourite moment: a shopper who looked rather careworn and tired stopped to ask “What’s this meant to be?” I replied, “It’s to make a drab staircase look special so that when you walk up it, you feel special.” “That sounds nice,” she said, then looked at me with that where’s-the-piss-taking-camera sort of look, looked away and asked, “Is that really true?”
Also liked the old battleaxe who swept past and informed me she had never seen such a load of old rubbish in Bracknell. Tee! Hee!
Was it all worth it? It was as it was, and art is always better than no art.
But a lot of effort……….
