Here We Go
We had our first session of the new term yesterday and Jonathan asked us to fill in a form with what we are planning to exhibit in the end of year show. Well… that was a surprise. I’ve been operating under the idea that I’d not have to “finalise” my ideas until much later (yes, I know things can change!), so this was both terrible and brilliant for me.
I’ve been full of terrible ideas for a while and not settling on any one thing that has caught my imagination. If I’m honest, this is because I’ve been putting off the inevitable: my good ideas are A LOT OF BLOODY WORK, so I’ve been trying to have ‘smaller’ ideas and failing miserably.
The need to ‘commit to an idea’ means that I bit the bullet and decided on one of my “good” ideas. It might turn out to be rubbish, but it’s an idea that captured my imagination a while back, but I put it on a back burner because, as I said, it’s A LOT OF BLOODY WORK… but I’m ready for that now. And now that I’ve decided to do it, I’m really very excited.
I’ve been avoiding A LOT OF BLOODY WORK because I’ve been writing my talk for a conference I’m attending in a couple weeks (some of what I’ve been thinking about is here, more soon). I need a lot of free ‘thinking time’ when I’m writing and couldn’t just throw in a ton of other work on top of my already fairly busy ‘real life’ stuff.
Now that it is our final term, I need to dig out all of the half-baked things I’ve been writing and get them up here. I’ve got about 5 billion files to go through and will filter them down into the least rubbish!