24th January

Despite all of the staff at work being off, either sick or on holiday and me doing their jobs, coupled with another poor nights sleep, racked with nightmares about dwarfs trying to kill me and some other bizarre stuff, I managed to start the day at full throttle.

Hit the studio at 9 am and full of Americano was straight into the workshop and straight onto the baseball bats. Cutting, plaining and sanding all day. Early doors I caught the I.T guy (Paul) and collared him about my hard drive, by lunch it was fixed and I was back in business. At about 10am Hammam entered the workshop and I asked him what he would think If I covered the Quran in resin (resin came to mind when clearing up a mess left by Helen Kaplinski in the casting room) along with other significant texts that have been used for good and for bad (over simplification I know). He looked at me as he so often does, like I was an idiot. He would not like me to use it, he said. Adding "no one would see it anyway" a jibe at me if their ever was one.

I explained that the shortlist of books that would be put into resin on certain pages would be the following.

Mien Kampf
Das Kapital
The Bible
The Quaran
Sprak Zarathustra

I need to research more and read more thoughrouly before completing the list and so completing the baseball bat rack. I know what I am doing even if others don’t or don’t care.(no this is a crap idea)

Worked on the computer over lunch and then printed off images of my work for Simon Lewandowski. In the afternoon I finished in the workshop before returning home for a sandwich and then off to work.