The school holidays have proved to be an interesting exercise in time management! Trips to libraries to collect paper (thank you North Finchley) and two visits to the delightful Museum of Barnet have been family outings. I am hoping that The Museum of Barnet will be able to find some photocopier erratum with a historical link for me to use in 1894 section. Working on the piece has meant snatching the odd hour when one child is napping and the other ensconced in some activity – however I do now feel it is really progressing. Have done the majority of the intricate first layers the lower ones are less complicated as each subsequent shadow projection is less detailed than the previous. The work is beginning to take on more of a sculptural form and extending from the 2D map format into a softly undulating mass.
Whilst making it I find myself reading the paper I am working with. It is an activity that is both revelatory and anonymous: shopping lists, drawings, texts from university courses…they tell me something about the donor but it is only the briefest of things.
