i’ve had an enjoyable day. work on communication stuff this morning and an appraisal of where the making has got to this afternoon. the working of the poster has opened my thinking to the possibility of how the poster is very much part of the work. the proposition i make in the poster of a question, being able to be solved by playing with the work. it feels very joined up and keeping me refreshed about doing all the other aspects of the project, apart from just the making of it.
so it was fitting that this afternoon, i sat with what i’ve made so far, played with it, made alterations and wrote about what i found out about it. by doing this i’m feeling better connected to what it is i am making.
( a pause to record two sneezes….phew that’s better)
i get to the end of the first week feeling good about where i am and relaxed too. this evening is the degree show opening of the university i went too. i wasn’t going to go, however upon reflection i can see that there is something for me to celebrate this evening too. two years after graduating i am working on a project, that i’m enjoying making and doing all the other essential things of our time and it’s funded by the arts council, yes the arts council no less and at a time where the mainstream media has been up until recently very doom and gloom about austerity and cuts. out of that doom and gloom there are projects happening because they have been selected.
i have been selected. i am celebrating that fact.
and i shall remember this moment in those moments to come when it all feels about to fall around my ankles and there is no belt left to hitch up the trousers and keep walking. for that is the nature of what i do and i have chosen to do that.
and the thing that makes all the difference is a small group of people by their actions saying, “yes, we like what you do, carry on and do what you do, for we like it.”
i’ve attached a link to an old favourite tooon…. please ignore the picture, it’s clichéd and not really relevant and the words i tend not to pay much attention to. what is relevant is the energy in the tooon. i’m listening to it as i write this, and it makes me feel good.
happy weekend.xx
ignore the image and don’t pay much attention to the words, it’s the energy i like
