After a return to London to sort out Access to Work claims, a pile of post, leaking washing machine, and “computer say no” problems, I am back in the swing of things in Liverpool and the pace is now hotting up for the second half of my residency.
There is an upbeat mood in the city since the recent football results, and constant replaying of Gerard’s hat-trick on City Talk radio.
I have been making real time drawings of the skyline from the moving ferry, and have returned to make drawings of the city from the top of the Anglican Cathedral, having got the go ahead from Cannon Hawley.
At the top of the tower (110 steps) there is a man called Frank, who sits in a little shed. I think his job is to check nobody falls off or has a heart attack on the way up.
I have been trying to grapple with the practicalities of drawing from up there -an extensive panorama from very high up, with lots of detail and rather a lot of wind. I suspect the practicalities and the distance from the subject might defeat me, but I am currently still persevering until I can hone it down to something simpler.
Today Frank was replaced by Amie, a student who is practising her singing for a concert tonight. (rather atmospheric and lovely). It feels rather surreal and special to think of these characters in their shed at the top of the city.
I am feeling very at home in the studio, though time already feels like it is going very fast. I have had constructed a series of hanging lines to experiment with layering my transparent drawings on top of each other. Not sure what will happen to them yet.
