Beside myself with excitement. Woke up knowing what to do with the Deptford show. Phew.
Obvious really. I've got all my notebooks stored in the archive room and for a while have been wondering about creating an installation around them. Now I'm doing a show about drawing... perfect.
Some will be readable but most will be sealed in some way, simply because I think thats more interesting. The contents are historic and not gripping; little drawings, studies for pix, shopping lists, phone numbers - I carry then everywhere so they cop the stuff of life. Private and not worth examining, though some I will make available to make this point.
First thing this morning I sewed a bag and put 4 notebooks into it, misread some words sticking out at the back as 'I am that I am' which is the title of that one then :)
Its very nice.
Have been decanting bags of drawings at random into plastic files; there can be a shelf of them, boring but meretricious (probably)
Tiring and melancholic work which is why Ive stopped to write this.
The gallery has some plinths that will take a pile or two.
I plan to drill through lots of the books, impale them on a spike and padlock them. Also to sew some into shrouds. And so on.
It will be a decent show after all, now able to do the catalogue in this context, yeah
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