Art in Ed

Exhibition go, go go!

Today in about 2 hours I will be running a military operation. 4 cars at intervals will be invading Salamanca Place, my crew will be commanding parking places. Then with precision, they will be unloading precious sculptures from each car. Taking them up a flight of steps to Off Centre Gallery with no tripping, or dropping the sculptures out of the bottom of boxes, or knocking pieces off.

That is how I have planned it in my head. But anything can go wrong! Not least of all there will be no parking with the morning breakfast crowd taking all the spots!

I set up plinths on Friday ready to take my beautiful ladies but there are too many ladies and I suspect the plinths are just not wide enough for some of them. Yes, I have been dreaming musical sculptures... how on earth am I going to arrange them all?

But in 4 or 5 hours it will be over. I will have an exhibition set up and ready for the public to enjoy. A sigh of relief before the next task... media releases and presentations.... organizing the opening... and I am dreaming hors d'oeuvres.

I really wish I was on a tropical island somewhere under a palm tree.

Everyone keeps saying to me, "I bet you must be excited", "Art is fun" but at this stage, after months of hard work, I am numb, and tired. I must remember to have time to enjoy it, smell the roses of the process... but really it is hard to do that when you are trying to load cars with ladies who are just a little bit too big and have too many bits to knock off... like the fat lady which is nearly 1 m tall and 0.55m wide and 20 kg. She has a tropical island with palm trees on her head, and I just hope it will stay there by the time we manouver her into the gallery and onto the plinth I have organized just for her.