After almost a month of feeling totally lethargic, I’ve been kick started into action by an unexpected means.
My boiler went.
Well, not all of the boiler thankfully – just the hot water. Two days of boiling kettles and pans to get myself presentable for work before I got round to sorting it. The realisation of how much I had shoved into the airing cupboard ( where the combi boiler is) struck me, as I panicked to get everything out before the gasman came. ( honestly – it’s always clear in there Mr Gasman!)
I work mainly with recycled materials, so I am forever picking up things that may be useful. Therefore, every cupboard or box in my house – or the car for that matter( as I just suddenly remembered picking up driftwood after a Christmas day stroll on the beach) has items in it in that I may ( or may not!) use one day.
So after the guy went, I tentatively started going through the pile of junk that was now on my bedroom floor. Some of it, I managed to be brave about and threw in the bin…. But found other things of interest….. half rolls of nice wallpaper, wrapping paper, lining paper that I’d used for another project. Brightly coloured old posters….. and it prompted new ideas .
It wasn’t just the fact that I found materials that I didn’t know I had – it was realising that I had no reason to feel frustrated over not producing work, as I was in fact ALWAYS working. Be it in the form of collecting items such as this, or working out ideas in my head.
It really is OK not to be manically exhibiting or planning for exhibitions.
