DEGREES UNEDITED

# 19 [29 May 2008]

Today is my second last day in uni,  the degree show is over and I am in the midst of clearing out the space, and painting (badly) the grey wall back to white. They said we should return the studio to how it was, so that means I should paint half my wall blue, throw some resin and tar over it, and cover the floor with plaster....

I am happy (very) with my degree results, but it has left me in a conumdrum of whether should I stay or should I go somewhere else for masters...who knows!

Feel incredibly deflated post degree show, no one tells you how anti climatic it can be once it has sucked out your blood and left you in the corner. Some people had roaring sucess in newspapers, gallery offers, sales...

I didn't. Alas. But my work was always about the process and the slow burn, so I'll burn slow instead... 

# 18 [15 May 2008]

Assessment is over.

Oral presentation with external examiner, over.

Degree results due to be posted on the noticeboard at 5pm, my life is over.

Degree show previews tomorrow, everything is far from over!!!!

Watch this space, I will become Kamera and take lots of snappy snaps of the show, alongside some personal faves...

# 17 [6 May 2008]

That's it... the end. Work is up for assessment as of 9.30am tomorrow... there's nothing but I can do but wait. And collect the mass of cleaning products and art materials i left outisde the door, hope it's still there in the morning.

Hope to tell you more tomorrow, soooo tired. Ate breakfast, lunch and dinner in the studio today. And it didn't save me that much time either.

Alas.

But at least I met Dave Gorman though! 

# 16 [4 May 2008]

What a fumey studio. Everyone except me has been painting their floors at some point in the past few days and it's really giving me a headache. Not to mention the various 'injuries' i have acquired with a hammer, drill, and sawdust (don't ask!)

Getting back to the work though and not my general whining,  I have finally finished one (the first and only so far) scroll!!!10m!!! Of the word 'enclose'... it took soooo long! 

And I also set up the darkroom chemicals (adding the the lack of fresh air in our space) and took a 20 minute exposure. It was really interesting as i didn't feature at all in the photograph even though I was a constant in its frame. It was a long enough exposure however, being indoors and the window being blocked by boardings, but the as the light filtered down, more and more of the image appeared.

cool! Gonna take more tomorrow...

... still way behind though :(

But at least I met Dave Gorman! 

# 15 [2 May 2008]

yadda yadda yadda.

not such a good day...

But at least I met Dave Gorman! 

# 14 [30 April 2008]

Space is getting whiter and brighter by the miniute! made some pretty handy 'hurdles' to attach my scrolls, there was the problem of a brick wall but not anymore!

the boarding tema have finally left our space so can get on with the work, and my photos arrived from Ilford, so can get them mounted and framed tomorrow... oh joy. Back in the workshop.

 But I love me grey.gray :)

# 13 [29 April 2008]

The partitions are up, but the boarding team kindly left all their tools in my space, so couldn't get as much done today as I wanted. But the grey/gray wall is looking swell:)

Today has been an angry today, degree shows bring out the worst in 'peoples...

But to soften the blow, it was a lovely sunny day and ate ice cream in the sun, and to top it off my boyfriend brough a picnic in for my tea so I could carry on painting! 

i also discovered my 3rd year helper! Hurrah! I have help, so hopefully can finish cleaning up the space and get back to writing my scrolls!

 oh the mirrors came, got replacements when I put on my 'no nonsense' tone of voice when they said they could get me new ones by the 9th (assessment is the 7th)

Go team kamera! 

# 12 [28 April 2008]

day 3: the wall is now gray/grey (however you prefer to spell it).

Floor scrubbed: 3 times

walls sanded: 3 so far

darkroom painted: 2 coats

tripods waxed: no wax in B&Q

No. of Mirrors purchased: 2 but got  phone call they are now broken!!!!!! 

# 11 [27 April 2008]

Day 2 of the degree show preperation... duh duh duhhhhhh! (dramatic sound) I am in my new space...

You forget the mammoth task which is ahead before you can even begin finishing (or in my case starting) the work you want to present! I am most grateful for a couple of my friends who were willing to get down and dusty with me!

Hired a car which Gump could drive and we went to B&Q but alas, the mirror wardrobe doors that I was looking for were out of stock, so off we went to the next B&Q along the Kingsway, only to end up out of Dundee, pretty much in Invergowrie!!! Oops! Eventually met our destination, only for them to be also out of stock! There was a glimmer of hope as they told me Perth had 3 in stock, so into the car park to make a telesales, only for them to tell me after waiting for infinity on hold, that they too are now out of stock! Who knew so many people in the Tayside area would be needing cheap B&Q value mirrored wardrobe doors!!! Damn you!

Thought best to cut my losses short, and head back to the studio, where there was sanding, scrubbing and painting to be done. Thank you Brian for the amazing sanding job on the wall of rubber (?) As a treat, when we were being thrown out we went to get ice cream and drove to the beach! yahoo! And double surprise, went to the ice cream place, saw really cool sundae glasses behind the counter, and enquired if they were for purchase! Lo and behold, they are replacing them with fancy handblown glass thingys, so he gave me 2 for FREE!!!! Good things come to those wait (also could be he felt sorry for the girl covered in dust, paint and somwwhat dragged through bush hair!) 

# 10 [23 April 2008]

Have spent almost a month in the wood workshop... and I'm still there. The trifids are looking good though, that what I'm calling my tripods, with their three legs and one eye, look rather alien-like!

I'm all rather pleased with myself, though I still hammer in nails squint and drill at awkward angles, thus producing awkward angles!

Still nowhere on these scrolls, the whole conceptual ideals have gone out the window long ago, and now I'm merely attempting to mass produce, I kinda hate that it's evolved like that.

The point of producing work in a process form that conserved the durational time and allowing a spaces to be formed has lost all meaning now... makes me a bit sad that setting up for the degree show has reduced it to this. But in order to get the degree, it must be done.