I was invited to the SUPERMARKET 2012 volunteers ‘Tackfest’ (literally translation – thank you party, though when ‘tack’ gets added to other words I still have a hard time not thinking about the ‘cheap and tacky’ kind of ‘tack’. I felt a bit out of place to start with as all the other volunteers actually worked long hours on the floor over the weekend – on the door, selling tickets and catalogues, helping the exhibitors and the public, whereas I had worked in the comfort of my own home on correcting and sub-editing English texts over a number of weeks. However we were all volunteers and it was very nice to be invited. There was a brief evaluation session when people spoke (in English and not on my account! – there was another volunteer there how spoke no Swedish at all, which was interesting to me) about their experiences and made suggestions for next year. And then the party began! I am not a natural party person but everyone was so friendly that it was a real pleasure to hang around for a couple more hours. Maybe next year I’ll get more involved, maybe do something more with the publication or the events programme …
On Thursday I started polishing one of the “new” second-hand baking tins that I have been collecting. It was nice to do something familiar while thinking about how and where the whole piece/ collection could go. It struck me this week that I have been giving myself a hard time trying to do something new, I thought it felt alright to feel a bit ‘forced’ after such a long break from having a studio, however it was quite unproductive. Now I am going to see what happens if I just let myself pick up from where I left off.
I have also been thinking about things various people have said to me in the past. One thing that I keep coming back to is the idea of ‘working on a series’. I don’t quite know what these means and it is certainly not something that I have done in the past but perhaps it is a good way to start producing again – to do something that is both familiar and new at the same time.
