Tuesday, August 30, 2011

More wood needed and a bionic arm...

So...drilling, screwing, smashing, chopping, axing, drilling, and more screwing finally took its toll! My wrist/arm is knackered and I seem to have picked up some kind of nasty bug that doesn't care about deadlines and the FINAL SHOW dun dun duuuuuuurnn!

The work itself is going OK and I have another wood collection lined up for tomorrow at Bristol Wood Recycling arranged with the ever friendly and enthusiastic Maff. I'm hoping this collection will be bountiful and provide enough wood to complete the work.

The issues that have caused me most anxiety, apart from my wrist being stupid and flaking out under the weight of my dewalt drill, which I must say, just to digress a moment, has started up some interesting visits to the pharmacists at Boots in Bath who in the absence of having a doc here have been sound, especially Mike who is now coming along to the show seeing as he's heard so much about it!

Oh yeah, back to the issues of anxiety. It's all to do with what goes on show where and when. What goes/stays for assessment etc. I never have quite worked out how best to show hundreds of photographs for example. Apart from the way I've currently got them which is on the wall. The thing is there is not much time between assessment and final show so whatever I do it need to be something quick and simple. It's too confusing to understand without standing with me in the space. I suppose the question I'm asking myself is, do I have the photos up for assessment or not and when I say out loud like that the answer is yes, it's just the time it takes to do it...considering all the other things to do...I'm boring myself now.

Lets have some pictures...

Metal collection from timber



Photograph of photographs



work in progress



the big hoist



detail - work in progress



hoisted up with chains and rope extra support underneath from chairs




collecting - this time at Wiltshire Wood Recycling



help yourselves they said!



axe in action


I may keep this axe for assessment time, may come in handy...KIDDING!