Just like that, the summer holidays are coming to an end. I feel as though the weeks just slipped through my fingers, but I don’t want to whinge about it too much; at least we’ve got another week left.

A visit to the Lowry

We were heading to the outskirts of Salford anyway, so I suggested going to have a look around the Lowry’s permanent exhibition and “Expect The Unexpected”, an exhibition about chance…

I like the idea of highlighting elements of chance in art, especially because I’m usually so uptight about process and tend to only embrace the random when it’s forced upon me.

On the other hand, we’re fooling ourselves about how much chance there really is in some of these works when the entire delivery is stage-managed, curated and explained in a neat writeup on the wall.

Some of the work is brilliant, some of the work is boring (but infuriatingly dressed up as being somehow playful, which gave us something to agree on for a change).

Coin designing delayed…

Instead I’ve been plastering a wall. I don’t know how to plaster a wall, and I can’t say I’ve done a great job, but it’s a very small wall and it’ll be hidden by a radiator and papered, so there.

The cut-outs I made last week won’t go to waste though; I still have plans for them, but I just need an afternoon to sit at my laptop and work out my new design. Hopefully next week will be a bit more predictable than this week was.

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