Busy Busy Busy Week

I'll get this over now:

gasp, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant....

It has been a very busy, often tense week. Monday I was working on my research paper, and finally printed three copies and submitted two (one for me to keep). That occupied the whole of the day. Kevin (mycosys) came into uni with me, and ended up buying an almost complete Apple G4 (it needs an ATI graphics card), which made him very happy. Tuesday I drove Kevin  to the dental clinic in Wallsend where he had an abcessed tooth pulled. We ended up at Jenn's where we watched videos and flaked out. Wednesday I stayed home and rearranged furniture in the lounge.

I absolutely needed to do so, to de-stress from the running about in the previous week - it's been pretty constant since the Saturday (Apana AGM). Also, as both Kevin and both had toothaches we were stressing each other out. I needed "time out" which I got. However, Kevin got a "dry socket" after removal and Wednesday night when we went shopping was difficult. I was pretty much worn out and Kevin was in a lot of pain and we were both getting on each other's nerves.

Thursday (yesterday) we were back at the dental clinic again. Kevin had an 11am appointment and I had an 11:40am one. Kevin's experience wasn't all that pleasant with the consulting dentist being (and correct me if I'm wrong here Kevin) either ignorant, arrogant, or both. I'm afraid I freaked out when, after complaining about the dentist, Kevin pointed out that the one I was about to see was the same one! Dentists scare the shit out of me, especially when I know what they're about to say (which was: either get root canal work at your own expense, or have the tooth removed at our expense).

I have an appointment next Thursday at Pacific Smiles (where I've had the last five teeth out, they are the least painful I've been to) for an extraction. Apparently my nerves are infected, which is why (since last Friday) the pain's been sort of "right side in general" rather than one tooth. I'm on pain killers until then, and the nuerofen I took ealier today has worked wondefully! Why not get an earlier appointment somewhere else? Because I know I can rely on PS to do a good job, and I have too much to do inbetween now and then.

Today I'm attending a "safety indoctrination" at SOFFA, the gallery where the exhibition will be held. I've already sent/printed my artist's statement, and will be going there in 10 minutes. The rest of teh day, I'll be preparing labels for the exhibit - each digital print will have its own label listing number of card, my title, and the 'traditional' tarot title. I'll also be catching up with Live Journal / Mailing lists, as there are problems with my net connection at home. Just most incentive to go to (joint) broadband.

gasp, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant, pant....

Actually, thinga re starting to ease off as far as pressure and confusion go. Though we were both tense yesterday morning, the afternoon at Jenn's made a difference (as did watching "Robin William live on Broadway"), but last night we were both able to relax, falking out in front of the TV. Persistence pays off!

Should be fun tomorrow - be shifting more furniture and stuff *WINK*

Exhibition Planning

Well, I went to the meeting with the SOFFA curator and a number of things came out of it.

Firstly, if all the prints in my work were placed "end to end" (some are portrait, others landscape) they'd measure 15.12 metres. The largest available wall space I have is (not counting a .8 metre margin at each end) 13.8 metres, so I cannot simply put my images in a row! I originally envisaged showing teh work in the "long room" of WATT SPACE, which is quite long indeed. This is actually a good thing, because in my research paper I mention that although the cards are numbered (from zero to 22) that apart from a starting (zero) and ending (22) there isn't an exact sequence to them. What I have to do is arrange them in clusters from a base line at about 1.5 metres high. If/when I reshow the work, it'll be an ongoing design consideration.

Any excuse to use a computer program to do so. I plan on using PaintShopPro and lay out the thumbnails of the prints on scaled / wide image. Does anytone have suggestions for a better application to lay them out in?

Secondly, there are four of us in the exhibition. Three of us turned up this morning, and things are fairly well planned out between us. It was a bit of give and take. For example, Marika -- who has a single (but complicated) sculpture -- needed an entire blank wall because part of her vision is the contrast between the work and a plain background.

Lastly, I have to mount them. My time is 12-3pm on Monday. Golly, that'll scare the shit out of me. I'm not known for being neat, tidy and ultra careful with things. This time though, I'll have to be ultra careful when mounting and dismounting the prints. It'll be thumb tacks all the way.


The opening is 6:30pm next Wednesday -- it'll be a long week until then!

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