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<\/a><\/p>\nThank heaven for Thursday arvo – this became my bliss time – prepping and pressing the freshly printed fronts and backs of the bulk of the rows for K1P1#3.
\nAt the moment this ‘bliss’, this calm zone-out, increasingly revolves around repetitive tasks that go towards the production of a new artwork – a beautiful calm rhythm of cut, press, fuse, stack, cut… or whatever process I am working on.
\nI suppose it is the bliss of progression and satisfaction too?
\nThe voice of Richard Fidler and whichever guest he is conversing with, or some other variety of podcast occupies my noggin whilst my hands work happily in that mechanical rhythm.<\/p>\n
I love conceiving the idea for a new artwork, quickly jotting down words and sketches – though words are my dominant record of these sometimes fleeting moments. The week was full, and far from horrible, but it was the ‘bliss’ time of gently advancing a new piece that gave me the most rewarding feelings. Filling the bare freshly painting laundry area was a priority. I have a blister on my right hand palm from screwing in the D-ring hangers. It is still tender by the end of the week. I then set-to finishing painting the stair section of the studio and eventually re-arranging \/re-hanging some of the artwork there. It is obvious that I have not made enough art in the last couple of years. I have some pieces stored but I have not made nearly enough for me to rotate and refresh regularly. I am probably a bit hard on myself because this is very far from the On Monday my printer went into meltdown as I was to start fabric production, thirty-three A3 prints for K1P1#3. My equilibrium was threatened and I felt like I was melded to the printer as I approached meltdown by imagining the worst. There was also a continuation of the Stitched and Bound experience with well attended artists talks on Tuesday afternoon – even though the attendance was predominantly the artists. Then on Saturday QTSGWA attended the exhibition where we listened and some of us spoke about our relevant artworks.<\/p>\n Throughout the week my thoughts lingered on the prep needed for my upcoming visit to Geelong to spend a few days with my lovely talented friend Helen Millar. This meeting is one of the irrevocable deadlines recently set in cement.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIt is easy to conceive ideas but much more difficult to bring them to full term, to birth them. So many become misses.
\nSome are planned with materials lined up and notes and sketches advanced.
\nSome get to sit in project boxes, started but interrupted by either lack of time, lack of deadline or lack of resolve.
\nI love a deadline. I need a deadline. I especially need a set-in-cement deadline that fires me up with the will to make this new work<\/em> THE most important thing to do.
\nPutting in place self-prescribed<\/em> deadlines that are irrevocable<\/strong>, is something that I am working on.<\/p>\n
\nIt was far from a quiet or boring week.
\nIt was surprisingly productive despite the full calendar.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nObviously my hands are wussy textile hands not caloused woodworkers palms…..
\nindeed, as I write this I can feel the hands of my dad, a builder with skin as tough as the planks he worked with. His fingers needed a regular de-splintering – an excavation, by needle, with mum the gentle surgeon.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nI enjoy having my work around me in the studio as a contrast in our home, through an adjoining door, where we have the walls filled with artwork of others.<\/p>\n
\nclose-to-full-time gig I would like this to be…..eventually.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHow was I to get to my bliss-time this week without my printer doing its very clever thing?
\nTest prints, cleaning the print heads etc were clearing the problem when the maintenance tank (the tank the holds ink excess) filled and I could do no more.
\nIt was quicker and cheaper to pick them up from my supplier in West Perth than to order online.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWe are working towards an exhibition together at the end of next year and we want to work thematically – hence the urgency getting together for meetings over a few days to try to drastically advance the small steps that we have agreed on so far.<\/p>\n