Tom sent me a video of the author Neil Gaiman speaking at an American College graduation. I don’t remember the ins and outs of the whole thing, but one phrase has stuck with me and now I use it, and people frown and wonder what I’m on about.<\/p>\n
Closer to the Mountain.<\/p>\n
When I do things or plan things I look at it and wonder whether it will take me closer to the mountain or not. The mountain being working as a full time creative person, generally making artwork and using the skills I trained in.<\/p>\n
So far my journey has been steadily, if slowly, headed toward the mountain. I haven’t taken any giant deviations as yet.<\/p>\n
My work has been sent to the Futures In Excellence\u00a0<\/em>exhibition in the Borders Textile Towerhouse in Hawick. Along with a set of postcards which will be 50p to buy! I will need to take some time to go down and see how they have displayed my work, and also get my screens stretched.<\/p>\n This week.<\/strong><\/p>\n -More studio stuff.<\/p>\n -Forest Cafe installation proposal meeting prep, doodles and colours and samples. Must try and go in for coffee to scope it out one day, tomorrow<\/p>\n -Mike Kearney Ka-tet photos, I’m working on these now<\/p>\n -Website updates, I really really MUST finish this<\/p>\n -Prep for the Stitch Up project classes I will be running<\/p>\n -Applications, residencies, prizes<\/p>\n -Bar Work, inevitably I must eat, so I must work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom sent me a video of the author Neil Gaiman speaking at an American College graduation. I don’t remember the ins and outs of the whole thing, but one phrase has stuck with me and now I use it, and people frown and wonder what I’m on about. Closer to the Mountain. When I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}