Well, I have sent off my submission, so I’ll stop boring you all with a blow by blow description of a life in the week of a mad artist. And hopefully catch up on some more sleep. I hate this part of the artistic process – the framing is painfully time consuming especially when you don’t have any of the right tools (on my wish list) and are too short of money to pay for those nice mats and large bits of appropriately coloured card to mount the work. Everything must have a wire for hanging across the back of the frame – which is a lot of extra time nailing/screwing/gluing all as carefully as possible so you don’t stress the glass too much and bust it – been there done that.

And paperwork! I spent an hour filling in the damn form, it’s a docx download which I don’t have the software for. I converted it and filled the whole thing in, saved it and tried to attach it to my email to submit – and discovered the converter had crashed and corrupted the file so badly it couldn’t be opened anymore. This was at midnight. I cried. I then filled out everything again – they want up to 100 words of what each artwork is about, plus mind numbing details such as the exact size of each frame. And as it’s a word document, you have to keep reformatting it as you add information and deleting pages of little dots. I could print, complete by hand, then scan and email, but that means manually counting the words in each category. Grrrrrr.

In the end, I submitted 5 works, three ink paintings – 2 I’ve already posted here, this is the third:

It’s called Homelessness, something with which I am all too depressingly familiar. Instead of a description of my experiences, I included this short poem: