Its late at night I’ve had a bob sleigh day – head in one direction and then very fast in another direction.
This week has been amazing. As a project approaches its peak, there are more cups of tea, more phonecalls, shortcut conversations, a fifth gear approaching, late night thinking – thoughts at the front of your brain that are fed by back-head years of projects and community knowing and not knowing. The team I work with, put together in a combination of skills and divine instinct knowing how each person rises to their own occasion which all leads to and feeds to the show.
And location, location, location. A tiny heated office in an increasingly cold warehouse which houses us all hot-desks, visitors, flyers, show gismos, printer feeding a thousand envelopes… I don’t think I’ve ever signed so many letters – I feel like the queen. Yes, more time consuming than a photocopied letter – but its all in the detail at the end of the day – so if you write to someone you should write to them and sign the letter! Location.. in the midst of a email buried brain I sneak upstairs for a cigarette – the roof of our new HQ hosts the greatest cityscape skyline. The clouds offering ever evolving magnificence – if you don’t stare at a horizon at least once a week you can get folded by work.
So in a nutshell this week – the women take the show over with Mark, national press, bbc, beautiful Simon images, Sanj detail, Emily order, George darkness, Nicola clarity, Lee lone wolf, Simon P license to play, firecrackers and youth in Auchinleck Square, … Developers closing in.
Bullet points
So, the countdown is on and I want a thank you to an amazing team. We are on target and plenty of detail and gaps still to be delivered.
see you soon
Sandra
Harry Palmer says:
Well! It’s now a week after the tremendous community show - and I can say with confidence that this WAS as a COMMUNITY show! It took the whole concept of art where you live to new heights and new dimensions. It lacked the detrimental problems with whizz- bang spectacle shows that simple entertain. On the contrary, it was intimate spectacle, grand, visionary and wholeheartedly involving hundreds of people - from grown-ups through to children - as participants and as audiences. This deserves wide and national (and international) recognition for all THE RIGHT REASONS. Those who fail to see and observe this are not doing their job properly.
I can only genuinely congratulate all involved and without reservation, Friction Arts Ltd (who I have been involved with and seen grow over 11 years) - Sandra and Lee, for doing something extraordinary in my life (and hopefully others to).
Thankyou.
-Harry Palmer.