By jove!

I say, I note I have been somewhat tardy in keeping this thing up to date. Considering that I have two blogs, one here, one on Myspace, and a private journal, I can't really say that I'm surprised. Nor, when my workload is taken into account, should you be surprised.

This week I have been working twelve hours every day without fail, well, except today when I it all just got to me and I stopped after six.

What this means is that all of my major work is now complete and it is merely a case of printing it off (mostly done now) and mounting it (a devil of a job I have barely begun).

We got our exhibition boards on Wednesday evening... I started first thing Thursday morning pinning up. What I didn't anticipate was that my tutor wants to see our work mounted on foamboard... quite some expenditure has ensued.

Never mind! I freely admit the work looks better for it. It's just that mounting it is d--n near impossible to do without rucking or creasing the work in some way, leaving air bubbles that although don't stand up to close scrutiny do at least appear discreet at a distance of a metre or so. But my critics won't be looking from a distance of a metre!

And with every exhibition or crit, it is always the same. Everybody, everybody, looks at each others work and declares their own to be rubbish in comparison. We are our own worst critics I guess.

I have until Monday to pin up. My plan is this: to pin up tomorrow and give myself Sunday and Minday to identify gaos in my work and rectify them. I have already beaten the printer rush by plotting my bigger sheets yesterday and today. Lets hope I have the same presence of mind over the weekend.