Red Thread Trail

Good Evening!

Today has been a long and hectic day, but also really informative and productive.
My work today started at 9am directly when the woodworkshop opened. I knew the technician was going to be really busy the whole day so in order to get something done before anyone else needed assistance I was literally waiting outside the workshop when he arrived. Then I drilled in the last screws and attached the doors on two of my four paintings. After that I had to leave since the "skills 1" workshop was about to start. At 10 I had a group tutorial and at 11 a one-to-one tutorial with my studio tutor. At 12 noon I had a tutorial with painter and tutor Jost Münster when I got to show one of my finished boxes and how it worked with the painting inside. He seemed positive about the idea and myself I feel quite proud of my boxes. Especially of not giving up when it was hard. I will take photos tomorrow and can upload them here then. At about 12.30 Rachael and Jennie and I had a discussion with artist and tutor Richard Bevan which was also really helpful, thank you for arranging that Jennie!
Directly after that, at 13.30 I went back to the woodworkshop and finished the remaining two boxes, so now all of them are done YAY!
At around 2pm Rachael, Jennie and I met up and outlined the "maze" for our poster and other marketing elements(and maybe for the exhibition as an artwork), and then Jennie scanned it and I edited it with her on photoshop. Then there was some spare time which I used by starting to plan a new painting. At 5.30pm redthreadtrail-group had a meeting with Aîne Belton from Crate when we got to ask her a lot of questions about concrete stuff such as proposal-writing and how to best layout our poster, and she also gave feedback on our concepts for the whole project, and advise about the coming exhibition. And she looked at my paintings and boxes and gave me some feedback on them too.
Se was really generous with her time and the meeting was a whole hour long.

So, working more or less nonstop for almost 10 hours is maybe not anything recommended to do every day, however today has been very important for the progress of our project. Tomorrow will be a quieter day with egg-tempera workshop as my main focus.

Nadja