I love coming to the studio. It is starting to feel more and more as though it is my place. The ongoing process of sorting, moving, unpacking and repacking continues. I have also started doing some drawings that I hope will lead to some new sculptures. I’m a bit nervous to ask about how to book time in the plaster workshop– it means that I’ll also have to order materials and that makes me nervous at the moment. It has been a long time since I worked with new materials!
A few weeks ago I answered an open call for artists interested in collaborative projects. After a couple of rather curious meeting I have ended up as project coordinator for a group of five (possibly seven) artists. The project, known as Sandcastles in Greece, is one of several being run by a researcher at the royal college here. I am not at all sure what I have let myself in for. The meetings produced really interesting starting points however I feel that it is going to be quite a challenge to realize them in the timeframe and in the light of everyone’s other commitments. At the moment I’m waiting to hear back from two artists who attended the first meeting but not the second, I need to submit a budget and participant list by the end of the week so I need to know if they want to continue … or not.
My language course runs every morning of the week and I am thinking of skipping a day soon so that I can have a full day in the studio. It would be lovely to be here early one morning, to have breakfast and coffee … and then get on with the day here. I know myself well enough to know that I am a morning person and that the afternoon is most productive when I continue what I started in the morning.
Also want some days out! Ai Weiwei has just opened here, there’s a very interesting sounding show at Tensta Konsthall and it would be good to see the UNESCO World Heritage Woodland Cemetery in the snow …
