Finally it's coming together!

Time goes so fast and i seem to waste so much of it. BUT - in two days of complete focus, i have finally produced 10 really good pieces, and I am photographing them for a limited edition artist's book as i go along. Copies of the artist's book will be for sale at the exhibition. 

Although the images are all in my head (and have been for some time) - and I know exactly what i am trying to achieve - the pressure I have put on myself really relates to the 30 pieces being ONE piece. Although it should have been obvious, i had not quite realised the significance of this. If I was in the usual positiion of curating 30 separate pieces, i would be able to change their order to suit visual relationships between pieces, however, because an important part of the concept of this exhibition is that the work is describing the specific contents of a book,  it is important to me that I stick to the order of the chapters. So I have found myself having to create and hang the work, sequentially, in the gallery space!! Thank goodness there are only a few meetings taking place in there before the preview on 14th February.

 I also found that I had to move the display cabinets from the centre of the room. Visually they were rather like finding advertising stapled into the middle of a double page spread in a magazine you are trying to read.