March 2011

6th: The image above is a photograph taken with Helga. I continued with the experiment of opening half the holes. And then flipping the camera and opening up the other half. This time round I asked our gardener, Big Boy and his wife, Grace to first sit and then I sat with my wife for the second exposure. We are the left part of the image and they are the right.

I have to admit that I often if people here have any idea of the difficulties facing the staff they employ when they scream and shout at them for being late. I had no idea the distance that Big Boy and Grace had to travel until last week, and then I was just gobsmacked. They live some two hours away by taxi (south africa style). it seems ridiculous that they travel so far for work but I guess when you have no other option that is what you do.


 13th: Veni...Vidi...Recordabar...Life eventually catches up with you when you are trying to juggle too many things at once. Fortunately this time round it was only an egg that slipped through the net.

The Intoto opening went well. It was very different from any other opening that I have been to. Usually what happens is that a good percentage of the people that go to openings are artists themselves.  We are there to support, socialise and drink. The opening at Intoto was very different , while every one that was there was supporting, socialising and drinking, a good proportion seemed like they could actually afford to buy something and did not view the snacks as a cheap way to dine out.



27th: Work is underway on a new camera. The idea is to take photographs with it that can then be used in the Leonard Cohen Altar piece that Gordon Froud is curating. As is usual with these things you start off with the idea, then comes the drawings, then you buy the materials, then you start working on the materials and then you screw up leaving you with two options; A: buy new materails or B: curse the gods of fuck ups and just redesign the whole thing. In this case I have gone with option B. Hopefully there will not be any further screw ups as there is no option C.

So how will it work? The camera has three sections. These will close in. As each of the sections is a camera it will take three images when opened up. The two side panels will take photos that will be half the size of the one taken by the central section. 

29th: Plodding along with the three screen camera. I haven't given her a name yet but I am sure that I will think of something in due course. I am still being beset by errors, it has to be said that this is mainly due to a lack of concenration. A couple of the pieces made very good frisbies and actually flew a bit further than expected. As you can see the one section has since been claimed.