My Dog ate one of my works yesterday.
Today, that sounds slightly funny, but yesterday I was mortified.
This is the trouble with working at home …. having to deal with everything associated with it. I do have a studio – quite a good one actually, . but with working all week, I needed to catch up with the things in the home that I’d let slide.
So this is what happened…. I’d got up, walked the dogs, prepared my work ( a collage ) and left it on the kitchen table so that i could keep going back to it while I did other things.
I did a pile of washing, ate a yogurt, cut the grass, hoovered up…. I mentioned the yogurt because it isn’t unusual for the dogs to help themselves to things lying in the sink (such as an empty yogurt pot) so when I saw one of them chewing something in his bed, I assumed it was the pot.
Wrong.
I was just so fed up yesterday… I need a break, I need to go to the studio I need not to have things mounting up around me… and I need not to have to install an exhibition in 4 days :-(.
This, fortunately, was not the work that was eaten. I’d been experimenting with clay polymer that can be ‘cooked’ in the microwave, as I wanted to explore ceramics further, but didn’t want to waste time making and waiting for it to be fired. This way, I can try lots of ideas cheaply and quickly, before going back to clay for the finished pieces.
