I had a last minute change of mind over the work I was going to submit to the ‘Open’ at the local gallery. Although I was happy with the work I started last week, it looked pretty small, even when framed. They tend to cram the work into these opens ..and I knew mine would just look lost and a little sad against all of the other stuff. ( If it’s accepted that is!)
So I dragged out a work from 18 months ago, and took that along this morning. If I hadn’t gone first thing today, I probably would have changed my mind. Its done now though and I have £5 less in my funds.
This is breaking all of the rules I set out almost two years ago….. I was never going to enter an Open exhibition that you had to pay for…. I was going to avoid ‘local’ exhibitions…and I wasn’t going to show a work more than once.
So why did I bother?
I don’t know …. maybe its because I hadn’t entered for a few years and I have no plans to show locally in the near future, so I was kind of making my presence known.
It will be interesting to find out if my rule breaking plays out in any way, or whether it would be best to go back to my original way of thinking!
More interestingly though and still breaking rules in a way ….I’ve recently been told which venue I will be exhibiting in for DWF: http://dwf.uk.com/tag/dwf-08-03-13-22-03-12/ ( this was an open I’d submitted to ages ago, but there was no charge)
I will be showing in St John the Evangelists church in Leeds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Evangelist%27s_Church,_Leeds
Unlike a ‘normal’ exhibition, I’m not at all sure how will my work can be displayed, so it will be a case of working it out when I get there. DWF opens next weekend, but apart from today, I only have Tuesday off before then – so that’s the day I will be there!
Here’s to the next few days when I will be working out all sorts of permutations of the installation in my head, worrying myself silly over it all and yet again thinking ‘ Why am I doing this?’
