November 2010

22nd: Well whats been happening? Not much to be honest. Still trying to organise with Jacques to get some stuff through to his new gallery as well as a time to take his portrait. The exhibition at Pandoras is going to run for a little longer. And well thats about it. Got some stuff planned but want to hold on with that until the new year.

6th: And so we have netered into the penultimate month of the year. As ever in gauteng the heat here is relentless. But at least the rains are starting to come.

So what has happened over the last couple of weeks? Jacques popped around to have a look at what he would like to take to put up in his new gallery. Unfortunately the pic (The Judgement) he chose was too big for his car so we are going to have to make another plan.

Put some work up for a show at Pandora (Back Home). The venue is a nice spot. A ramshackled house that offers up more questions than a traditional white walled gallery would.

On the work front things aren't so great. Plenty of quotes given out but no one is prepared to pay. It seems they want things at cost which is just not possible nor worth the effort. 

October 2010

30th: Lots of ideas for stuff but no cash at the moment. Meanwhile I have built a frame for a coffee table made from the finest quality scraps of shutter ply. Its for a client who has showed me three different designs. So I decided to make something from what I had available. Truth be told in the best traditions of well thought out design, I have just been making it up as I go along. It is going to be stained a dark brown. It will get a glass top and then a shelf out of wood at the bottom thus hiding the cross struts.

Tomorrow I have to go and hang some stuff at Pandora. Not sure what I am going to do. The invite talks of new stuff by so and so artists but like I said all I have are ideas with no money or time left to do them. So maybe have to dig in the cupboard to find some stuff I haven't yet shown. 

9th: It has been a while since the last blog. the time has been well spent. Went over to England for just under five weeks. While I spent most of the time working, to be honest after the franetic couple of months that I had leading up to the time away, it felt like a holiday. So now I am back in South Africa. November looks like it is going to be a cool month with regards to exhibitions. For me at least. Jacques Michau is opening up a gallery and is keen on including some of my work in his opening show. The Pandora gallery have invited me to exhibit in one of their shows...and well thats about it for now. But it is nice to get invited.

September 2010

12th: Well Hardus came and took delivery of the camera obscura. I gave it a go just to see if my calculations were ok etc etc. It seems like it will work all right and he seems ok with it all.The grain in the pic is from the wood upon which the image was being projected onto.

6th: Took the dome down last week. Delivered Magnum to his new owners. And ummm have been carrying on with the Camera Obscura drawing aid. Almost finished just got to put the doors on and complete the housing for the lens. The cool thing is that it looks like it is going to work.

Off to England at the end of the week for a month where I will be doing ummm........well there is no plan as yet .

August 2010

26th: Managed to get a bit of press coverage for the dome in the Beeld, a local South African paper. Unfortunately my Afrikaans is not that great but I am working on a translation. In the meantime here is a link to the article: Klim binne-in Fuller se kuns en visie

Camera Obscura Progress: Decided to work on something else for the moment, but it should be ready next week.

23th: Welcome to the mess that is my garage. It was clean on the weekend but life being what it is.....

Camera Obscura Progress: As of today I am really starting to feel like I am eating this project. For some reason, with everything thing that I try and do there is some sort of cock up involved. Underestimating materials required, cutting pieces wrong, gettin smacked in the face by pieces of timber spat out by the saw. Every day there has been something that has inspired visions of stuffing the contraption into a corner and forgetting about it. I suppose I only have myself to blame. I should have just made him a box with a hole in it rather than giving him this pimped up version.

So next week the dome is coming down. it seems like only yesterday that I put it up.

19th: This is something that I have been commissioned to make. A camera obscura for an artist. I am still tomake the box that sits on top and houses the lens and mirror. Still have to make the doors and the drawer as well that sits below the drawing area. Oh and the legs too. the red table is not what it is going to be standing on.

19th: Here is a little something I have been doing for an exhibition at Cameo Framers. At first I just did the Barbie. But it just seem so wrong to have a Barbie without a Ken, so I made a Ken. Strictly speaking he shouldn't have a little todger but I thought that I would give him something to make hime the envy of all other Kens.

The exhibition opens on Saturday sometime in the morning I guess.

11th: These past few weeks have been a mixed bag. There was the installation of the Sphere at the UJ gallery. That week proved to be a logistical nightmare with trying to enter work into Sasol New Signatures and then having to pick it up all in the same week. Didn't get in, but I did manage to get some feed back re my entry which was good. Going to make a few changes and then enter it for something else.

Last week I heard that I had sold Magnum. This might be the way to go - creating cameras that have their own value beyond that as a functioning object. Hmmm might be time to investigate those ideas that I had a while back but have failed to do anything about.