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with the boy yesterday morning. Turns out MFYP is quite similar to his…. much enthusing ensued and we spent the morning drinking tea, looking at old ruins in Italy to convert into a homegrown creative retreat/bed and breakfast. I laughed when he said he’d quite like to project manage the dream. He’s an obsessive too. Lush. He said we should wait a week before writing a list, to be sure it’s what we want to do. I disagree.

tomorrow. Today I am celebrating by walking, standing, jumping, skipping and hopping. Thinking about taking myself to my secret tea room today to eat a cream cake. In other news, I love a tidy house.

went down a storm last week. Months of hard graft, tight deadlines and 1000 books later and I have an installation that I can be proud of. I feel in some ways that the book sculptures have finally been seen as I intended and this just wouldn’t have happened without Globe Gallery seeing that potential in me and my ability. I don’t know how much Globe intitially thought of me as a risk (I’ve never done anything on this sort of scale before) but it’s all paid off. I had my moment of relief came when they were illuminated from within and the director of the gallery said ‘well done”. I’ve never felt so happy. For months I only had the vision of the final piece in my head and though I tried to descibe it to technicians and electricians, I wasn’t sure they knew where I was coming from. But in that final moment when it all worked and I had fought for the lighting to be as I envisioned it, it all worked and inside I was saying ‘I knew it would, see I knew all along’. I think if there is a lesson to be learned here, it is not to compensate your vision and to work harder, longer to achieve it.

Now what is next? Enjoy it? Wait for the reviews, take it down, do something else, bigger, better, different, challenging.