Canberra was cool, literally, tho beaut & sunny. The wind cut thru ya tho & best wear a fair bunch of layers & a scarf. In spite of not believing u can get sick with just being cold for a bit, i am now sick with a cold & feeling a bit below average.
Bought an art book there, in a top little cheap bookshop in Belconnen, the book is New Art City by Jed Perl, its about the magical time in NYC from the fifties when the place was a wonderland of artists having a great fecund time in studios right in town & the vibrant scene they had then. The writing is so good, you can just open it anywhere & enjoy a sentence, even tho its about 500 pages it seems to ALL be good. I think the guy must have been an art critic or somthing similar, he gets right to the point & can describe an artists ouvre with one & a half sentences. Have even found my reading glasses so i can get into it when my head stops hurting.
Today went to the foundry, the people who commissioned the mystery guy came to see it, and the actual physical mystery guy himself, even. And, thank g-d, they absolutely loved it. I had to admit it looked orright there & the patina was excellent. Thats what u get from actually asking the patina man's advice eh :)
They had poured my 2 little things i made last week, they'd had some emergency castings requested & rushed mine thru with those just because. One was still too hot to hold from being poured that morning, I chipped it out of the mould with a wee hammer & it looked good. The other was poured while i watched & was still orange when i left. Awesome. I love that deep sudden slurping sound a nice hollow mould makes when it gets bronze poured in. This one was a little solid horse he was a nice rounded hollow space.
Installation of the mystery guy tomorrow nite. Already in trouble over who i didn't invite to dinner after the unveiling. This is just my destiny... there is never going to be a moment in these things when i don't snub at least 50 people, when u can only invite a very small number. Its a drag.
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