Exhibition preparation

Monday was the day for us to bring in all our work and our final pieces for assessment and for the exhibition which will open on Friday.  It was a rather nice day - college was all clean and tidy with fresh white paint on every wall, and there were lots of students fidgeting with their final pieces, fixing things to walls, arranging things on plinths and shelves, doing last minute adjustments, and setting out research files, sketchbooks and  development work for the assessors.  There was plenty of time to look at other people's work, before what will hopefully be a very crowded Private View on Friday evening.

My installation was fine, I was grateful for some help from James in assembling the open box onto the square plinth, and then I filled it up with my paper.  It looked like this....

I thought this was OK - except there didn't seem to be quite enough of the paper.  I wanted to create a rich sensation of being able to delve into the heap, and it was, frankly, a bit thin.  So I rushed home at lunchtime and furiously sliced up a bundle more women's history magazines and journals from way back, and a few other things including at least one of my essays.  When I could face using the guillotine no longer, I rushed back to college and added all this new material to the heap.  And it was considerably better for being much fuller. Like this..... 

It is now possible to pile up the strips and create little landscapes and sculptures, which is what I wanted to achieve.

I had to do another title for my film on the show reel, too, but I was pleased with the ways the film looks on the bigger screen.  The noise of the emergency siren, coming in the middle of the film, still seems to be OK, even though it obscures the sound of the paper falling for a while.  Anyway, it is all done now, and I just hope it comes out OK in the assessment - and I also hope that the box and plinth will be ok in the bustle of the Private View.  They are just a little vulnerable to being knocked into or knocked over in the place I've been allotted - but I mentioned this to several of the tutors and hopefully it will be moved, at lead a little, before the doors open on Friday.