I am drying the rest of the paper today. It is wonderful to be able to dry it outside, usually I have to use hot-plate type dryers with large quantities of paper. Later I am nipping into the Lightbox to pick up some of my equipment because on Saturday I am running a workshop at Farnham Maltings as part of their 'Farnham Creates..' events. I am also working on a growing installation through the day with (I hope) participation from the public.
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Week three and the workshop went much better. I rearranged the space, built in a break and some outdoors time as well. More to the point we were doing some more involving, less outcome driven work. Vast quantities of materials were used and large amounts of paper were made. A good day.
The children and I worked on long textured composite strips of paper which I had imagined (from the amount of pulp they used) would be quite chunky but drying the paper out today it is delicate and beautiful. Instead of the floor-based piece I thought we were making it has become something much more airy.
