Dissertation nearly finished – spell checked and then saved and 'puff' as if by magic – the file disappears, matrix style into little squares falling off the screen – virus!! Argh!!!!
Had saved all research and initial bits of essay elsewhere but will have to re-write majority of it all – could only happen to me I'm sure. Have too much work to do to fall apart so onwards and upwards as they say.
My cardboard tubes arrived and the theory was put into practice and actually worked – yippeee, so I have started being arty once again which has lessened the blow of the virus.
I need to get the writing out of the way, hand in Monday then I am free to make all my fragmented explosions, can't wait. Plinths are on the way too so that part is all going according to plan at least.
Still writing – seems never ending but 1 more week is all I have before it has to be handed in – Thank Goodness for deadlines. This report could go on & on…………………….
Just watched the Big Art Project on Channel 4, it was a good start to the series, snippets of all 7 projects. I know a bit about the Sutton Colliery project as Liverpool Biennial instrumental in it's commission. The Grand Opening of Jaume Plensa's 'The Dream' is 31st May and I have been really looking forward to it only to find out this week that my son goes on his school 'away' trip the same day, I have to drop him at school at the exact same time as the opening – argh!
Will have to try & get there for the last half hour…
The TV programme was well worth a look tho.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-big-art-project/catch-up#2917570
Midnight and I had just decided to go to bed when I started reading people's degree blogs – 1am and here I am. I must be a glutton for punishment, I'm up at 6am with the kids..yawn.
Anyway – quick update. I have been and ordered the wood for my 10 plinths £200….eek BUT they are mdf not chipboard and so will look very grand when painted up. Hopefully my lecturer may buy them off me for an exhibition he has over the summer….fingers crossed.
Also decided to order the cardboard tubes, I have spent weeks making maquette after maquette and full scale wooden frames in which to make the exploding books but as they are so utterly fragile none of them have worked when I have tried to move them.
The cardboard tubes are hugely expensive at £250 for ten but seem to be the only way forward and so it must happen. That's what we get our student loans for after all.
This is turning out to be a very expensive final project but I am hoping it will be worth it when finished.
I went to the Williamson Art Gallery to re-measure – thankfully – as the books were going to be 8ft each high on 3ft plinths hanging 2ft from the ceiling – the one and only doorway into the gallery is only 7.5ft high and my work needs to stay completly upright when moved! I am so pleased I double checked; so now the plinths are raised half a foot and the books are lowered half a foot and all should be well.
This week I am going to finish my dissertation while I wait for all my deliveries then next week onwards will be artful construction – I can't wait.
Jeez…10 days have passed without me blogging. How did that happen?
I have been so busy writing away that I'm sure I have been absorbed into a timewarp. In fairness, I've been ill (again) as well – being ill eats time up that I can not afford to lose.
DO I have anything interesting to say? I don't know – do you all want to hear about my research, probably not and yet I have not much to tell about my actual art work, that is a laborious ongoing project.
I am cutting paper shapes from music books, religiously….I will need so many that all I seem to be doing lately is cutting, writing, cutting writing, eating, cutting, writing….add in a few hours sleep then back to cutting, writing and so on and so on.
It has occured to me that nearly every shape I cut, though random, are all looking rather droplet like – tears shed for these old books that had once been so cherished. I like that idea.
I took half a day off on Sunday and wandered around the Tate with my kids, that helped. I feel more inspired looking at other people's work and trying my best to explain it to a 10 and 4 year old.
Cornelia Parker's 'Measuring Niagara with a Spoon' was fantastic – my 10 year old thought it was 'just a bit of wire' but upon hearing the explanation was in awe. He then proceeded to read every explanation for every piece in the exhibition. I feel we have a convert to contemporary art and wonder what he might create in his next art class in school.
Still writing, would rather be being artistic but…..it has to be done.
Anyone on facebook, if so please join my new group and discuss Public Art with me.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=92637435119&ref=mf
Right, I have to go and draw, have many caricature commissions that will pay the bills.
