Productive day yesterday, putting together a script for an absurdist theatrical piece for a poetry event on Tuesday at Manchester Central Library. My piece, This Rust is Saxon Blood, is about the foundation of the North/South divide during the Norman conquest. Have been rehearsing and memorising the words, which is often a matter of recalling the links between the end of a sentence, or the end of a verse, and the first word of the next. Imagery is also important. For this I've also designed a costume and a prop friend, Guillaume, made from sack cloth.
After that, made a short video for the next ArtSwarm programme on the theme of gardening, piano variations on the theme of English Country Garden, with a hastily filmed video.
Then, booked the tickets and paid for my entry into this year's ING Discerning Eye exhibition, which is an excellent art exhibition of smaller works. What is nice about this event is that there are six different judges each year and all work is judged in person, rather than by photo.
Today, collection of work from Bickerton. Later this week, creating new illustrations for Deborah Edgeley's new poetry collection.
