Day 2

Today was more about setting up for the actual work involved. It’s great to have that luxury of time to be able to get into the space and really take the rings to plan. I did want to to start working on the portraits on Monday but it was so full of planning for the workshop and cutting paper to the require lengths. I wanted to do at much as I could in preparation.

Today I cut another 5 sheets of 200cm so I knew I had the minimum amount needed for the portraits I’ve got. I think. Setting that up, Marcus was available to help me plan the actual wall space and what options were available to mount them on the wall. I knew I had to find some FrogTape because he’d just repainted the walls and I worldview want to ruin the nice work he’d done. Thankfully he had some masking tape from our shared studioi was able to set up one of the sheets and worked on the first drawing that evening. Was slightly annoyed at the charcoal not being as black or as smooth as I was picturing in my head it would respond to the paper.

A gorgeous photo. The last session of the project, an introduction from Marcus. Nim. From the questionnaire I was working from, I asked her a further question which prompted her to tear up and I happened to take the shot.

When she saw the photo she said, “I hope you use that one”. I did.