I am not panicking but the temptation is there internet, the temptation is there.
Do you remember when I mentioned I was having an exhibition on January the 26th with Eve Howard? An exhibition that was mostly all my friend Eve’s idea? Well internet, Eve has reluctantly cancelled as she is too busy to do our Albatross exhibition justice and we will have a fabulous joint show together at a later date.
This in itself isn’t enough to make me panic, not even enough to make me falter in my artistic stride internet. No, not at all.
What has made me contemplate panicking is the fact that another exhibitor at the Off Centre Micro Gallery has cancelled their booking and because of this cancellation, I decided to bring the date of my exhibition forward 2 weeks.
Commence panicky breathing and OH MY FUCKING GODS now.
That means that I have to have my work ready in TWELVE DAYS internet. Not the luxurious twenty six days I had up my sleeve yesterday.
12 days.
Eeek.
On the upside, I have asked another ceramic friend of mine, the very talented Philadelphia Hansen-Viney to share the space with me. Philly is going to bring some of her work up here tomorrow and we will do a bisque firing on Monday and then I plan to do a glaze firing by next Saturday the 7th of January at the very very latest.
I am going to be cutting it very very fine internet.
Very fine indeed.
I will keep you posted.
*image by Robin Roberts.
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Happy firing! Hope it all comes out perfect. Good luck.
Thanks lovely 🙂
Breath in, now out – head down and go girl – you can do it!
Now that I have the kiln three quarters packed I feel a lot less panicky. I will fire it tomorrow night after Philly has been up and put her work in. Thanks 🙂
No worries, just keep breathing, and remember that good old Aussie maxim – ‘she’ll be right’!
xox
Nothing like flying by the seat of your pants to let you know you are alive. “she’ll be right, she’ll be right, she’ll be right”
I would say good luck, but I know it’s redundant as you’ll be brilliant on the day and you will wow them. 🙂
*grins*
Wow! Kudos to you for not just continuing but bringing the date forward. Personally I’ve found there is nothing like a deadline to get my creativity flowing, so hopefully the same will work for you. Good luck, not that I need think you will need it. And … breathe!
Thanks Bron, I hadn’t even thought about it that way. Yes Kudos to me , YAY! The writing of stuff out on the blog helps me to get my thoughts straight in my head and helps me to work out a plan of attack. As I am making the work I generally have a pretty good idea of how I am going to glaze and fire it. So at this stage of the work it is not so much a creative process, but just hard slog. I find the process of glazing exhausting, there is lots of lifting of buckets and sieving of glazes and it is very physical and time consuming. I am breathing now 🙂
You may feel you are cutting it fine, but fine is a good word for your work. And amazing, incredible, beautiful and thought provoking. You can do it. And we here in the blogosphere are convinced of that.
Your faith in me spurs me along you know 🙂
You’ll be fine Kim, and just think the whole thing will be over and done before you know it!
Don’t worry about any mis-firings either, just tell people they were meant to be that way, I know that I personally wouldn’t know any different.
Good luck and
Happy New Year
Lol thanks River. 🙂 Happy New Year to you my lovely friend.
good luck..deep breath and go for it girlxxx
Happy new yearxx
You’re coming exhibition? I think you will achieve your dreams, your work here is quite amazing. Good luck 😀
Not long now and I bet it comes together beautifully. Your work is tactile, expressive, dynamic – even practical! Have a blast 😀