Talk about cutting a fine line. I was still installing Dreams of Verdant Decadence right up until people started arriving. Granted this was the wall drawings in the corridor approaching the vault. I really would have liked a day or so to make minor adjustments where needed but I seriously underestimated how long the install would take. Thankfully, as I am both a member of the Studio Access Group and have been volunteering at Umbrella Contemporary Arts for many years, the lovely staff were willing to give me a bit of leeway.

The problem with being the type of artist who continually changes their approach to their art is that I haven’t learnt what the difficulties might be and so have to solve the problems when they occur instead of preventing them. This was very much the case in this show. I quickly realized the original way I intended to hang the flowers wasn’t going to work. I hadn’t allowed for how transparent some of the flowers were. In the end I mostly used a thick type of double-sided tape. As it came off quite often when I didn’t want it to, I really hope it comes off easily when I do! If not, you’ll hear the groan all over Townsville. The same goes for the black liquid chalk on the corridor walls. It takes a little bit of scrubbing but is supposed to just wash off.