Although I auditioned pink/orange/red fabrics for the background to this piece, I found it really needed to be mounted on something glittery; and interestingly silver and pewter didn’t do it, but I did have this tiny gold dots on black, perfect. And there’s still another week before I take this and several other Growth pieces to to my photographer Eduardo. I’m considering adding a few little strings of beads to wander out from several of the puffs to anchor onto the background – or also considering some scattered single beads, just as on top of the puffs, in various places… and I have a few days to think about it, try one out and see…
It took me a while to realise these 3D works featuring beads and sequins really need protection when they’re being handled and in storage; so as I finished each one I’ve made a cloth bag to put it in for that protection. But before I reached that conclusion, I gifted a small one to a friend and can hardly believe I didn’t even put it in a little plastic bag, ye gods!! Anyway, my friend got it home and photogrpahed it on a piece of furniture in amonth a group of several antique silver things, so that’s nice, so the piece made the journey of several hundred kilometers safely.
So often when I need work photographed I’m in some kind of hurry, perhaps only the front looks finished but everything on the back is merely tacked into place! Or, I need the photos back that night to allow for entering some deadline on the other side of the world which is half a day ahead of Montevideo, and until the last minute I’m getting the right sized hanging rod, or tacking the binding into place as mentioned. I’ve declared this is the final one of the 3 new, 3D works I’m asking him to photograph. They’ll be included in my forthcoming solo exhibition in Maldonado; the oldest work is from 2018 but everyting else is more recent and none have been previously shown in Uruguay. It’s way too long since my last solo exhibition, for various reasons, which, if you’re close to my daily life you knew of them, anyway, and if you’re not, don’t worry, that time has passed.
Christmas is coming, and I need to focus a bit on the distant family, order gifts to be delivered from their local vendors, and pen the annual we’re-still-alive-and-hope-you-are-too newsletter to rels and friends, old and new, in places we’ve lived around the world.
I also need to focus a bit on things like organising little label panels to go near each work, organise a guest book, and an album gallery containing my resume, statement and a few things about me for visitors. I can either be quite relaxed about how it’s all falling into place, or I’m hopelessly delusional… One great thing I learned this week is that the earlier information I got that the Casa de la Cultura galleiries are open mondays to fridays AND saturdays (I’d been told it was M-F only.)
