i sit here beginning a blog i proposed to start back in march. my revised application has been successful and this week is the beginning of the project. like being in a new school, there are things i need yet don’t yet know where they are. doing the application has raised my awareness of being aware of risks of doing a project and those risks helping to manage the project, through solving them.
something i’ve been thinking about is to do with public admissions of thoughts. i wondered as the project is publically funded, should i along the way express those inner worries and concerns that worry me, so that they are shared in the public domain.
this project will not be possible without the help and collaboration of others to help me realise the goals i have set. my biggest risk is that i don’t achieve the audience figures i have set out in the application. i have a marketing strategy and part of that is an ability to add other things to it along the way. i look to the blog reading community for help and support with ideas for audience engagement and simply word of mouth help and support.
the snee snaw is a work that can be seen for what it is, so my blog here will be as it is. today as i write this i have a nervous new boy feeling and at my age it is slightly disconcerting that i can still have this feeling. having written and admitted that in a public place the nerves don’t seem quite so bad now. so this blog might well become somewhere where i come to reveal the inner things that bother me in the moment, for after all, where else can i speak of these things.
i have other communication channels for the snee snaw, twitter, facebook, a website, nearing publication and my artist page on facebook. all of those feel directly facing the public and need to have a certain line of posivity and ‘always up’, here on this a-n- blog i will need to balance that out. effectively, the readers of this blog are on the inside of the workings of the project, i’m ok with this possibly putting readers off. i guess it’s something to do with accountability, if there’s anyone out there who actually wants to know that much.
the other reason for this blog is to track myself in real time to then use it for evaluating at the end of the project. so again, i accept that not everyone will be interested in what i write.
immediately i can see something of myself in what i’ve written to do with acceptance and confidence in myself from others. i’ll keep doing what i’ve said i’ll do and write about that.
my first day in the project is daunting and exciting and i’ve another task to do soon and and and…did i say this project is funded by the arts council ? it is and i’m still getting used to that.
welcome to my backstage lounge for the project.
