Last week before Glasto

I am, yet again, doing a brain dump here.The last week has arrived and my head is so full and my body, well, tired. This week we have a number of things to finish before the big bang. The most important parts to finish (artistically) are the tree canopy and the sensory boxes. The can sculptures look really stunning and will look brilliant mixed with the paper trinkets described by Helen in another post, the pine cones and real leaves set in transparancies. The trick is to get the measurements of the mesh right, not to mention the height. It is all a bit hit and miss as you really need to be in the geodome to get this perfect, so we are going for 'better more than too few'. Diorama's are a slight challenge with these odd measurements, but I think they will look really good when finished and if not, the boxes on the 'stone' pillars are a stunning feature in itself. (all outer artwork by Alice Fletcher by the way). Colette visited our workshop last week on Monday and was pleased with progress so far, she even cut some cans! We are batlling with transport issues to Glasto as it looks like we won't even get on site until about 11 a.m. on Monday due to all the traders queuing up. That would only leave us 1.5 days to build the whole thing and do all the finishing touches, volunteers briefing and Silent Disco tutorials, eek! It is weird, I always said that we would only have 1.5 days, but now it is really true. Most people told me that we have way longer than that, but it does not look like it with these logistics. It always amazes me that many people have no sense of how long things actually take.

The bar looks stunning and we had heaps of responses to the question posed by Jo Bell about the outdoors. Now they need to be written onto raw bunting. Anyway, need to crack on, but it is all getting quite excited now. Can't wait until Glasto Wednesday, when it should all be done. xx V