Practice In Context

16th April
Welcome back after Easter, not that I went away. I have, since the last post landed an interview for a technician’s job (hopefully) for one week, just before the show. The job is across the road at the art college, (if I get it) hopefully leading to more.

I have also decided to meet her in Thailand and spend a couple of weeks (after the degree is over) relaxing on Krabi Island while I evaluate the future in the company of the woman I love.(smug bastard)

I have spent most of Easter in the Church and whilst the weather has been hot and the sky has been a pristine azure blue outside, I have been inside the cold dank church.

I am now ready to finish this. It was not until last night however that I came to some kind of resolution about the casts and how they will stand in the Church.

School was followed by work and work was followed by home. I ate quickly and then left for the library. I picked up a copy of Goethe’s "Faust" and read from start to finish. I said my goodbyes to Hammam who lives in the library of a night and returned home.

I was lying in bed wide eyed and deep in though until 2am but I do believe I had a breakthrough as to how I will display the work. Research and development, production and then destruction should be the three parts to the circle.

Situating the casts amongst the pews does not work visually or physically. People need to encounter large groups and walk amongst them, become part of the congregation but not be able to penetrate entirely. I will record them in the pews and capture the early morning light (between 6 and 8am) where the sun comes through the alter window and lights the bullets up in a rainbow of colour.

I finally see some light in the distance, there is now a possibility of a "New Beginning". I am ready to remove myself,

"From the dull rooms of mean houses, from the bondage of mechanical drudgery, from the confinement of gables and roofs and from the venerable gloom of churches." (41)