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# 25 [27 February 2008]

The exhibition finished on Saturday the 23rd and I just de-installed the exhibition yesterday and today. I was really worried about the taking down but pleasantly surprised how easy it was. I was hoping to take the work down in one section but this was not possible and had to separate the outside in three sections and the inside in four sections. Three of us slowly took the sections down without any damages.
Now the show is over feels very good somehow!!! I was also very nervous about going back; because of the problems I had at the opening, but everything when well.

I had lots of positive feedback and book of interesting comments.

Well that’s it I guess, is the end!!!

# 24 [14 February 2008]

Time seems to be going so fast, almost the end of my exhibition in France. I am off to visit my family in Macedonia tomorrow for a week and as soon as I get back I am going back to France to take the exhibition down.

Is a very funny feeling, feels as I’ve just put the show up and am already taking it down. I have had no correspondence from either the director or the curator from the Gallery so really have no feed back in how the show has been or is progressing…… I am really looking forward to finding out what has been happening, how are people reacting or seeing the work.

# 23 [4 February 2008]

I haven’t had much news about the exhibition and not really sure how is it all going. Last update, well short email from Adeline was that one of the pieces ‘Bad Hair Day’ is going bit mouldy and she was very worried and didn’t know what to do. Now has been treated again and I haven’t herd anything further so I guess no news is a good news.

A part from that there has been few reviews in the papers which I have to translated to see what they are really saying,…..

We’ll keep you posted if I have some more news.

# 22 [20 January 2008]

I am bit late with my update of this blog and I do apologies for that.

Last week I was back in Valenciennes to finish the installation of the work and open the exhibition. It was a mad week with many problems, firstly technology was the main problem. Trying to show a double projection with two different DVD players wasn’t going to happen. We managed to borrow professional pioneers from www.lefresnoy.net and they kindly connected the two DVD players to a computer so we can start them in a same time. This solved one problem but we still had a major problem with the two projectors. It was impossible to adjust the projectors, they where hanging from the ceiling attached upside down by screws to a timber shelf, which made impossible to move. Only thing we can move was the trapeze but this was not enough. Also there was a problem with the colour, one projector had green and the other purple cast so the images looked completely different and out of sink. With many discussions and disagreements the Gallery decide it, without my agreement to run and show the videos…. And there it was the exhibition opened. I recorded the work on the Saturday morning and came back to England. So now a week in I don’t have any news and don’t really know how the exhibition is going!!!

# 21 [4 January 2008]

Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year and are ready for a start of a new year. Well I am glad to have left 2007 and hoping that 2008 will be much more productive. I collected the print yesterday from Metro Imaging and looks great I am very happy with the colours and the quality of the print. Last night I also went to an opening in Studio 1:1, which was very well attended. There were many people from Braziers Workshop and was lovely to see them and catch up with them. Sadly made me feel bit sad of not leaving in London any more and not having gatherings like that here in Brighton.

# 20 [24 December 2007]

Yes I am home now and been home for a week. Very nice I have to admit. Lots of gatherings and catching ups to do. Last Monday I had a meting with Metro Imaging in London. They are printing a large photograph (148” x 33”), which will be part of the exhibition at L’H du Siege. The photograph is part of a work that I did in Cobn, Cork in 2006, but has never been realised and shown before. On Thursday I when back to Metro to see the sample of the print and it looks good. The photograph will be ready after New Year just on time for my return to France. At present I am also trying to finish the editing of a video work, which again was created in Cobn, Cork but never shown before. And yes I am trying to have some time off for Christmas and New Year.

Happy Christmas to everyone readying this blog.

# 19 [14 December 2007]

My problems have continued and there has been a new problem every day. I don’t know why but everything is so difficult and takes so much time to explain and justify. I have two more days left and leaving on Sunday morning, so I am hoping will be able to finish most of the things and complete the installation.

On one of the images you can see the labyrinth is almost there, is just that I have run out of material and had to go back to the Slaughter House to get some more Caul Fat to make one more section. This section will have to be left to dry and will be installed in January before the exhibition.

# 18 [8 December 2007]

Installation day 5 and work is strating to take some shape now. I am hoping to have most of the pieces hang by tusday and then adjust and join all the work by the end of next week.

The work is very delicate and has to be done very slow as any sudden movement can pull and ripe it down so will take a long time.

# 17 [7 December 2007]

Well into the installation week now and things are moving very slow. I have made some decisions on how to install the work and instead of a tunnel there will be a walk-in – walkway structure, almost the shape of an intestine, such as labyrinth. Everything seems to be going wrong, I don’t understand why? Even a small things such a paint for the metal, they bought me paint for wood? So I spend 3 hours painting the metal to find out that this was not the right paint then all that work had to be taken off and repainted, good start of the week. Now the metal has dried, last night I started to hang the metal structure (which is very flimsy but hoping will do the job).

# 16 [1 December 2007]

Tomorrow is my big day and a big week and a half a head. Hopefully tomorrow I start to install the exhibition at the Gallery. I had so many problems with the work and the making of the structure that at the end had to change the concept and the installation of the work. So I don’t know what will happen and how the work will look. I am still trying to finish some of the pieces and had lots of problems with the supply of the organs. Here in France, as you probably know have had many strikes and this has effected everything, even me. The Slaughter House has not been able to give me the orders I need it and this has put me back with the making. I have been told and hoping I can get some more organs enough to finish the work next Thursday. This is how far I got with some of the pieces but need 10 or so of each of the skins to finish them!!!