Slowly slowly catch a monkey

Slowly slowly catch a monkey, 7 weeks and 69 objects to make a non stop winding bonanza. Objects 26-40 pictured above with my high tech recording system of my progress.

60 from 250? still going after not so happy ending

After some not so good news this week (didn't get selected for the show I applied for), I am continuing to push on with my self imposed deadline. There is 7 weeks to go and current status is 41 of 110 complete.

Objects 11-25 in pictures above.

60 from 250? I must be demented

Seriously when it comes to this project sometimes I do consider if I am crazy.   I have my self imposed project deadline of September 14th and at the same time I have increased my expectation to include the making of 110 objects to signify and represent the severely and critically endangered indigenous languages.  Whilst continueing to read in depth about history of the beginning of white people colonising the continent.  The books usually leave me feeling sad and despairing......
and so sometimes I just question what the hell I am doing
and then I continue.

To date on this next stage in this epic making journey, I have completed 16 objects of 110 (the first 5 pictured above).

 

 

Inspiration - Translating Emoji into a Giant Light Show

I love learning about other artists and their process, this project by Jennifer Wen Ma is on a monumental scale and truly inspirational.

 

the Story - v

"Transportation sort to remove, once and for all, the source of contamination from the otherwise decent bosom of the lower classes, and ship it "beyond the seas" to a place from which it could not easily return. There it would stay, providing slave labour for colonial development and undergoing such mutations toward respectability as whips and chains might induce. The main point was not what happened to it there, but that it would no longer be here."

Source: The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes

one more to build and destroy and make - done

Well that is except for the 110 small/tiny/barely existent objects , I am still to make by September (to represent the 110 severely endangered languages). Of course this is my self imposed deadline.

So here it is!

application done

Applying for an exhibition is horrible, but happy that I have completed one tonight at least 15 hours before the deadline.