paper metal stone

Today I have made a series of templates that I am about to show Andy the lovely metal man. With any luck he will not laugh at my crooked bits of paper but will magic them into wonderful sturdy metal which will hold my stone sculptures together. I cut the stone to create some space between the parts - easy, the tricky bit is putting it all back together.

happy new year and Zeno

New year - new chainsaw!! Hurrah! New Bosch which just feels great, some tools just fit and this is fab. With this and a pile of ash wood in the front garden, I am raring to go. However I shall have to curb my enthusiasm as I do need to spend today finishing off some outstanding projects and today I shall tackle a piece of stone which has been on the go for some time and is tentatively booked for photographing in a couple of weeks- I need a deadline, I hate them usually but I am giving myself one now. Sculpture often feels like Zeno's paradox. I think it will take a day to finish, I will not finish today and anticipate it to take another half day, however this isn't quite enough and I shall need the best part of another day....and so on, ad infinitum it seems. Does the sculpture look better when I spend time on it ? I hope so!!

all things conspire

Still with a hacking cough I once more decide that the studio isn't the best place. I had hoped to get in there for a few hours especially with it being so close to Christmas it might well be quiet....unless we all turn up thinking the same! I am still collecting bric a brac for a project that 
I want to get finished next year. I  still need to find a whale, small tractor parts and a representation for the Venezuelan Navy.   

more applications

With a cough that warned me not to go into a freezing studio, I have spent the day working at the New Year Resolution that began in September. I am writing and re-writing applications, sending them to a good chum to read them and she promptly tells me 'could try harder' - it's worse than being back at school. With a C+ given to my last effort for a residency application that I really really want, I have amended it yet again, aiming for a B next time. 
Frustratingly, I sent away a huge pile of slides of really old work which should be on a CD but I haven't been able to open all the images. I had hoped to get these online but a preview of the ones I could open suggest that my photography skills as a student were not what I remember and they should stay out of the public realm! A trip down memory lane and some stories recalled that will also stay locked away