A Day of Work and A Few Weekly Musings

First off, let me say that Friday's are ALWAYS the best...because of polar swim of course. So after an early AM swim across Elbow and back, a sweat in the sauna and a rowdy rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, I was more than ready to hop around campus in search of natural objects in a variety of colors. Red berries, dandelions, green leaves, orange dried pine needles, white birch bark...well you get the idea. This idea came to be in a "vision" I had last night, I'm not ready to reveal the full details but it will reflect the image colors from the collage wall. Then I got to work in the installation room itself, starting to create my paper bag tree in the corner, it looks great so far, but I definitely need more brown paper bags! In other news, a few of the wall tiles came out of the glaze kiln this morning and they are looking great. I'm very excited to see them all together, but we have a few more firings to go before that happens. For the afternoon I had the wondrous opportunity to throw with Kate Jones, literally a four year dream in the making. After that, I spent the rest of my afternoon cleaning and painting the floor a second time, as I hope to start working on my floor display tomorrow - no this will not be a department store. Although this may seem to be excessively time consuming, it was very rewarding as it now looks perfect. 

This week has been a whirlwind, but I can see my crazy vision unfolding in front of me as a reality. The collage wall looks better than I ever imagined it to be. The room is all painted. I have a toilet and it is covered with clay. The tree is started. I have a plan for the floor. The tiles are on their way. I have fabric for the ceiling picked out. And most importantly, everything has been done with the utmost attention for detail, so as I pick up speed next week everything should fall into place perfectly. I had hoped that the tiles would be done, but it is hard to fit more than four or five in the kiln at once and there is just no way to change that! I honestly hadn't thought it would be that hard to find a used toilet and after a few weeks of search I was beginning to loose hope...then I just found one on the side of the road. Next week my plan is to continue to power through. I hope to have the tiles all up, fabric hung and the floor display all finished...In the meantime, if you have any mussel shells or blue sea glass to donate to the cause let me know! Blue is hard to find! *May 8, 2015 - 8:40 pm*