Mild excitement since I've been informed that the filming done by BBC2's Culture Show team last Friday is going to include a few seconds of Creekery #2 and it's being screened tonight.
(See it on BBC iPlayer here, and fast forward 20 minutes...)
The weather was truly awful last Wednesday and Thursday (though very good news for farmers and gardeners). It pretty much wrecked the installation, quickly covering it in mud, knocking a few plates over and carrying one or two downstream. Friday was more clement so I got down into the creek and washed them all again. It was beginning to feel like a performance piece with the old woman doing the washing up in the river...
Just as I'd finished practically totally reinstalling the piece and was coming up the ladder at around 5pm, the BBC film crew emerged outside from the gallery. Fortunately they didn't want to speak to me. They also filmed Charlotte Warne Thomas's gold leaf portaloo which was situated outside, and filmed in the gallery so they'll be featuring a couple more works housed indoors. There will probably be interviews and more action coming from Bear Space, The Old Police Station and The Agency, where they filmed later on.
Meanwhile, my buyer pulled out, but may still be interested in a photograph. Getting a large format photograph is now posing a challenge because the lowtides are at awkward times of the day this week and next.
I've also been getting helpful advice from time lapse photographer Mo Hague who is a friend of my potential buyer. The work continues...
Fortunately, I am being allowed to keep the piece in the Creek a bit longer so that we can do this documentation, even though the show finished last Sunday.
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