ABSA up date - had an oh oh moment. Got a call today of the we have a problem with your work. unfortunately I couldn't hear what they were saying, so I was left thinking they can't accpet my work after as someone has made an objection. All was alright in the end. All they wanted to know was whether they could cut the wires that were used to hang the piece up. Phew, man I thought I was a gonner there.
18th: This week is really starting to feel unproductive. Although I have moved forward with sourcing some materials and solving the joining the shapes issue, it feels like production is grinding to a halt. Although I have completed the cutting of the shapes for the hexagons and have built a jig to cut the pentagon tubes, things feel like they have are going slower and slower. I suppose it is the knowing that this weekend I am not going to be able to focus as much time on the geodome as I would like to. Plus there is the heat. It is starting to sap the life out of me. I'm starting to feel like the thug in the original Robo Cop that fell in the vat of Acid and started to melt. The body is waisting away and the brain is starting to melt down.
ABSA up date - no rudi nudi mud men from Pretoria. Yes I hear you all screaming 'out boo, hiss hiss, its a fix'. I am sure though that we will get our annual gratuitous display of bits and bobs. Rumour has it that another entry from somewhere in the in the country has snuck in.
12th: So here is a taster of what is brewing in the workshop. A lot has been done but there is a lot more to do. The big issues right now are the time and finance constraints. I want to have the dome completed for the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts Awards. So timewise I think that I have two months to meet this dealine. Money wise, well I think that I am about R5000 short of where I want to be. I have someone working for me to get sponsorship but any donations will be most welcome. kritikalmassuk@hotmail.com
Some technicalities are been worked out, like how to get in and out but I think that by turning one of the hexagons into a walkway and then another into a door I will be fine. The pentagon in the middle will be the standing platform.
Tommorrow is the Pretoria regional selection show for this years ABSA L'Atilier. I have been selected but it will be interesting to see what else they did and if this years rudi nudi mudman got in.
7th: 106 entries in Pretoria for this years ABSA L'Atelier. With about 10 regional centres around the country forwarding on average ten works each that means that I have a 1 in ten chance of getting in. Of course we all know that selection is not based on chance but something altogether far more subtle and mysterious. Thats why its best to be pragmatic about anything you enter. Yes your work may be worthy of a grand master and everybody elses looks like its been yawned up on a pavement outside a pub on a Saturday evening, but that don't mean you are going to win let alone get in.
You will be happy to know that this years submissions included the perenial period piece as well as the obligitory rudey nudey photographs of people taking on some dumb ass contorted my soul is in so much pain pose smeared in stuff, possibly mud this time, I think. Even with the 2m x 2m x 2m size limitation I am sure you could just submit a pair of grimacing mud wrestlers.
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