I carved 24 grains today and had six visitors (a friend, a young woman, two men, a couple). As I’m not looking up when visitors come I don’t know who visitors are or how they react. Chris Graham was my assisstant today and there was a good energy in the space. Fran documented in the morning focusing on my hand movements and close ups of shavings and soap brick walls.
Chris was watching my movements, the shavings falling and observed the rhythm of the piece. He was talking about connetions with attitude of cleanlyness and purity of churches, workhouses, women labouring – people watching, silence and piecefullness, comparing carving trolley to an alter and how he finds the work really engagening so he could be silent for the duration of the five hours (excl. lunch break). For those who know Chris will understand that this means something :-))
Now the money has come through from ACE I ordered wooden carving tools, disposable aprons and latex and powder free gloves for the workshops next week. I’ll make some carving tools myself out of wooden lolly pop sticks but to offer some variation I ordered some additional tools over ebay. Can’t believe the workshops are next week already, getting excited about them too now.
Still really enjoy being in the space.
Last Saturday 16th I carved an additional hour as Port of Sheffield launched one of their audio canal walks from the Grain Warehouse. That meant six more carved grains and a few more people who experienced the project.
It would be fantastic if the Grain Warehouse could become an art space for longer.
