The End of Year Show – Room 101

Goneness and loose ends

Setting up the exhibition has been an emotional affair. Lots of periods of quiet contemplation in the space. Everyone aiming for the best possible outcome, some of us questioning decisions made and directions taken. Still, it has been good to get to this stage, to set up the exhibition space and hang our work.

Didn’t expect to be painting the walls. The room is transformed.

Finally everything is in place. Two large pieces were set aside. I had created more than was needed and so was able to choose the best images for the exhibition. Two more would have crowded the space. The rail seemed heavy at first but it chimes well with the “Sheila Maid” used regularly by my mother to dry clothes in the winter. Her chair which I had envisaged from the outset was used by her in her care home. It belongs to my sister now so I have borrowed it. All three cardigans belonged to my mother. She seemed to have a lot. A mix of bought and hand knitted. Some how they have remained in my home since her death, evidence of her knitting and running a “Kay’s Catalogue” in the village.

The “loose ends” – lots of them – will remain for ever and I guess the state of “goneness” I hoped for might not come, since memory, I have found is so capricious.