Now having returned from SSW to the Dear Green Place of Glasgow, I’m back in the studio getting reaquainted with everything - outside I hear the rumble of trains and motorways, but not Arnie the foundry propane torch or Eden’s Squennis commentary. The dung molds seem to have survived the epic mountain road crossing over the Cairngorms, having been carefully packed in wood shavings for the journey.
Here are a few more images of the work being installed, and of a sort of stand-off between man and dungmix. Here also is the latest odd set of objects to be installed in the Corolla:
I have now decided to show the work again as part of the Merchant City Festival at the Briggait in Glasgow (weekend of the 23/24 July). This will be shown alongside new work by Deniz, one of whose involves the collecting of dust from several locations around the Merchant City. We both seem to enjoy reinventing the waste products found around us!
A few images from the last four weeks:
Eden and Katie, pre pour
The door of names
SSW space shuttle programme underway
Gordon shows off his cast
...and in the spirit of continuation, following a conversation with a friend at GSS, I have managed to find a possible source of Buffalo dung in Scotland. As you will remember from Kate Hobby’s advice, this is the best dung for mold-making, but usually hard to come by in this part of the world. If I do succeed in acquiring some of this fabled excrement, I shall perhaps begin to re-create my SSW residency work once again!
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