Finished at last!

I have spent the best part of the last few days doing all the last bits and pieces for my Foundation Diploma assessment and the final show.  Our work has to be delivered to college on Monday for assessment and the final show opens on Friday evening.

I thought I had more or less got everything done, but there was still a lot - including the bibliography and project evaluation.

Well, at last it is all done, and all packed up in boxes and folders ready to take in on Monday.  And here it all is.....

And I am feeling quite cheerful about the work itself, and the way it has all come together. My two complementary final pieces can't be shown here, although I will have some photos later on, once the show is done.  

I am submitting a short film I made at college which is  of thousands of little strips of cut-up paper falling into a big heap on the floor, complete with sound.  

And secondly an installation consisting of a big flat open wooden box, 3' square and sitting on a pedestal about 3' high, which will be filled with those same strips.  Visitors will be invited to delve into the heap with their hands, to pick up the strips and drop them again, to listen to the sounds they make, to pile them up into weird and wonderful shapes and sculptures, and generally to experience the exhilaration of letting go of an old life full of words and papers and essays and report writing, in exchange for a new freedom to create and experience textures, sounds, sights and shapes. 

Well, that's what I hope will happen.  I have a private nightmare that the plinth will get knocked over and the paper scraps will be spread across the floor....  I am a little worried about the location I've been given within the exhibition rooms, and may need to negotiate about this when I take everything in on Monday.

I am so pleased to have it finished!  But what on earth will I fill my time with now?  One urgent task is to give the house a much-needed clean and tidy.  The kitchen has been totally invaded for weeks, and somehow things have found their way into every corner of the house.  

So, given the continuing rain and wind, what better way to spend Saturday afternoon than having a good old tidy? Actually I can think of a great many nicer things to do, but needs must....

And the second thing to do, which is definitely nicer, is to make the Ginger and Rhubarb loaf which my lovely daughter Charlie has just up-loaded onto her blog charliemakescakes.blogspot.co.uk and which sounds scrumptious.