Wanderings

STARTING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER AGAIN

After what seems like weeks of pulling things apart, packing up & making a mess, today is a BIG DAY – hopefully the start of things coming together again.

Here it comes – my new home work space.

ISLAND TESTING GROUND

Packing’s done. Just waiting for new shed to arrive at home so I can move stuff out of Blue Monkey & make room for Liv who’s taking my space.

Spending a lot of time tidying up loose ends – finishing bits of work and doing my summer job.

Have acquired an old bath which will become my island testing ground. I’ve set a couple of experiments in motion to see how they “weather”.

Hope to do some more “re-tracing”, progress with my cardboard island and try out a couple of other ideas.

SHOPPING LIST

salt

chalk

sand

plaster

spade

SUNDAY 16 AUGUST

9.30am – At the studio bright and early. HAVE to get this packing finished. Windows open, radio on, coffee made, let’s get on with it!

10.50am – Blogging seems to play the same sort of role for me that smoking did (when I was a smoker). It provides the excuse for a break, a sort of reward for all that hard work, but ultimately a work avoidance technique. Time for a biscuit (or two).

11.54am – Nearly done I think… or maybe not… making progress anyway.

12.52pm – Enough. One more morning & one more trip to the dump should do it.

PACKING

My brief burst of work was a short lived interlude. Now it’s back to packing. 6 years worth of accumulated STUFF. What to keep… what should go… another couple of days should get it done – at least that will be one job to be crossed off the list and one step nearer to a more settled working routine.

SKETCHBOOK WORK

09.45

Never mind the packing, the admin, the preparation, the research! I just NEED to do some work… something to get some of these thoughts out of my mind and into reality! Just for a couple of hours everything else can go on hold.

11.55

Ok, so it’s going to take more than a couple of hours, but at least I’ve started.

12.20

Hmm… well there’s the first step towards making my own little island… bit flat at the moment, but maybe I can build up some more contours… let’s see what happens.