- visit to Suffolk and Juliet Lockhart's studio - on a farm surrounded by niceness
- two days of bliss, pottering and endless art/ideas/discussion/coffee and hotcross buns
- an awakening...a sudden burst of enthusiasm for art again and the smell of a new idea
- momentum and feel good factor increases
- jump straight on it when I get back to Liverpool and get wheels in motion
- contact local councillors, and set up a meeting
- get an email from a residency I applied for in 2009 to agree starting dates this year, Slovakia for three months from Oct 1st to Dec 31st, should be guaranteed a white Chrimbo!
- Liverpool beat Everton in the FA Cup Semi Final
- meet councillor next to a snoring Giant Little Girl and discuss my proposal
- enthusiastic and surprisingly helpful response leads to on the spot conversations with Housing Officer and Biennial Folk
- Arrange meeting with Biennial people at a project they're doing in our local community
- Myself and my Mum attend a meeting with other local residents where I pitch my idea (that I'd just changed in my head on the bus on the way there)
- Meeting went very well and met lots of new people all wanting to do good stuff in the Anfield/Everton areas in Liverpool and Biennial people
- Meeting arranged for tomorrow in Manchester at The Arts Council for some initial funding advice for my project
- Getting in touch with my old school to discuss working with some of their pupils on my project - realise that one of my old teachers now runs the place - this could work against me! Oops.
- First driving lesson today - I drove - at least 7 inches - got into third gear and didn't stall
- I have a bike now too and rode along the prom, proud of my achievement of moving in a car
Giants in North Liverpool - this was amazing and in the area I'm from and where I'm proposing my new project
So, to summarise in two weeks I've met and talked to so many people that are doing exactly what I want to be doing, they've been helpful and supportive and encouraged me to continue with my idea...so I will.
Oh yeah, I'm also off to Leeds on Saturday to start another project that involves responding to Leeds Art Galleries lending library - they actually lend art work! - so, I go up, chose a piece of work, take it away and make work responding to it, this is then part of The Grassington Festival. Really, really looking forward to this. AND L5 is finally being re-installed in May...
I'm excited.
A pic of where things turned around...
Juliet Lockhart's studio, lunch time, with Rego the dog
