At least, things are moving in the right direction. The Poetry Lounge is being painted a soothing shade of green, and the poems for the walls being prepared. Rather than simply stick them on the walls, Ben (curator) intends to treat them as art objects, and present using some rather nice parchment-like paper.
Meanwhile thousands of pieces of slate are being hand washed ready for inscribing for the Garden of Stones, a Herculean task which begins tomorrow. Volunteers have been scrubbing away at slate with smiles on their faces and a song in their hearts.
I’ve managed to locate a monitor for a second computer, but the third seemed problematic until a friend turned up tonight saying he had a machine surplus to requirements. Still needs another monitor - but one step at a time. A colleague has generously given a massice 19 inch CRT to the exhibition, probably because it’s the size of a small horse.
We’ve some attractive furniture on its way for the Lounge, and for the ghost office (still without a proper title) and meanwhile scattering publicity all over the place.
Meanwhile the second channel of the audio work has probably been finalised, so I’m busy editing the stills to it. Sounds good. I think the slower pace we’ve now settled on is a big improvement, but it means the images stay on screen rather longer than they did, and I’m not too happy with that. Some of them do not bear long scrutiny.
