Open

With a group of old lady bellydancers and six speeches in Chinees the Guandu Sculpture Festival is opened for public. Sem the chief marketing was so nervous he didn't introduced us properly. Can happen. Afterwards press and bobo's walked the route. Every artist could say something about theit work and that was it. I told about my inspiration, my way of working and the nature is taking the site over again, birds are already sitting on top of the poles... The reactions are good.  Aso the weather was good and  the crowed ok. Afterwards lunch and the black hole. Its strange to work that hard and then suddenly the work is done. A happy and sad moment at the same time. Rest of the day relaxing, took some pictures and went to an opening at the school of art up the hill. Remains two days of public activities and packing and planning for a trip in Taiwan. Wonder how that goes with the language...

Work is done

Its done. Put the last ones up and fixed them. Flock is flying, battery empty. Its all right! 

Creating the Flock of Birds

You're beginning to see it, a flock of birds. Got the lines in. I taped it and it will look like an performance I think. Putting these wavy strings onto the poles with 5 volunteers, Kuang-Chu the transalater and one payed worker Mr. Kuon (or something) plus myself with this chinese had (realy comfortable with the heat!). Started at 6 this morning to connect the biggest one at down the site. Finished this fat one around 9:30 together with Mr. Kuong. Todays heavy work covererd my body all over with scarves and scratches from 'lu wei' reed, bamboo and grass. Like I've been in a Asian war one of my collegues said. It was a good day altough making the composition is hard to do. Its like drawing on a large scale paper in 3D. But fun: this is the real creating! The 3 angles from where you can see my work make it realy difficult to do the right thing. Often work like this is best to experience at the site. Had a good talk about the work I made today together with Jane (curator). Just talked about the composition and lines, nice to have some feed back and discussion. Tomorrow I will do some little changes and adjustments and fix it. So I am on sceduel! Everybody is. The works are looking good; all come to Taipei city for the opening on fryday. Anita and Sil are you coming?! 

The first

Brought today the firts line in , in two parts. Carried this long tail with 7 peolpe. The same who made 3 more lines today. Good work, thanks!! Christeen already arrived at 7:30, what a suprise! My master assisiant, age 15 yrs. Tomorrow last warm day before rain will come again. Will make a long day and try to put, tempory, all the lines in.

Visited a recedency at the Danshui river an later the house and studio of my Taiwanese collegue Chen-sen. Good!

 

More lines to go

Just a short one this time. two blue sky days left. Rain is forecasted the last 4 days including the opening, not so good. Thats why starting early with more lines. Sculpturepoles are waiting for their horizontal 'brothers'. Hopefully tomorow there will be just like today 1o gigling volunteers to make my wavy strings. Been more manager than artist, its all in the game with this kind of large scale pieces. Strange because they do the realy good work wich I would like to do but then I need one more week! Lets go!!!

Horizon

This day was to me a day of the horizon. The horizontal lines are being made now. Find out with a bit help of the reed, bamboo, Roy (Staab), Christeen (talented creator and scout) and myself. It is a good feeling to have that started because this will be the true creating of the work I am making. Will show lots of choises (the amount of the lines: less is more?), the dificulties by fixing onto the vertical poles and ofcourse its shape. The way the curving lines will be. Like Roy said in his lecture; ‘its all about drawing’. In my case drawing this wavy composition. The lectures were good tonight. I was a bit nervous for mine, espacially when my slides turned out to be a sort of wide screen. But on the show it went allright I suppose. Did a short humoristic introduction of ‘Nederland’. Second the work I am making on Guandu and the inspiration and ideas behind it. And ended with a mixture of ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder pictures’ (token the last years and two this morning) and my previous works. After the ‘way to long’ lectures yesterday we (tonights artists) decided to do it more briefly. Aterwards I thought of a lot of explenations and details I could haven given to give my work a better understanding. Anyway it was like this. The others were less briefly but amazing inspiring to me. The large objects made by Roy and Stuart entered my nature and art heart straight away. Look and enjoy www.stuartianfrost.com plushttp://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-68.html The end of the day I pictured a little movie of exotic sounds in the park: frogs and insects played a real symphony while the full moon was watching at the horizon.

Going on

Doing projects this size is a matter of going on working on it... At the end of this day a good ammount of reed is harvested and got all the poles in! Tomorrow I will start with the horizontal lines! Will be a lot of work anyway so it’s time to start that for sure. ‘Heb er veel zin in!’ realy looking forward to do so. Putting the poles in was already a composition and creative thing to do, together with hard labour. Making the wavy lines and fixing them onto the poles will be the real creating of my work. Thank volunteers of helping me during the day. The youngest today was about 2 years old!