Useful day yesterday. Spent most of the day except lunch in the casting rooms over the road. I made new sprus and mixed new moulds. I managed to Poor another couple of moulds that were set from the previous week. I didn’t expect any results as the previous ones from the same batch had failed due to the sprus being to thin. One of the two worked however and I can put this down to 2 things.
Firstly the sprus were slightly bigger and second the metal was hotter as I had heated it for much longer due to Kevin being distracted by other students.
The one Spru that worked produced three lovely bullets, gold at the bottom and top, but black and deep purple in the centre. At first I thought this was the colour of the metal but I now believe it is the effects of the burnt-out wax. I will now photograph and produce more. I may decide to leave these on the sprus as they remind me of plants or new shoots breaking the surface.
On the way home I managed to get a response out of the clergy of north Leeds and arranged a meeting for tomorrow at lunch. St Marks has not yet been sold and not yet received planning permission, Hope remains.
Work followed by home and note taking out of "Art in Theory 1900-2000". I made notes from several writers and artists before starting to read extracts of Franz Marks "forward" to the planned second volume of Der Blaue Reiter and found a deep resonance with our present time.
It was only after reading this that I discovered Marc had been killed in action in Verdun. I sat and pondered this startling coincidence for a while and then was unable to take any further information in. I went to bed.
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