Today I made the sculptures as high as myself. It looks stunning when you look from down there, it seems as if they can fall any second, tumbling down the hill threatening your toes. The biggest problem I'm having now is timing. It takes much longer (about 7m) to make a sculpture my size with approximately 12 stones. That means I can only make three of those within the time limit of my audience (30m). Since I want it to become a ritualistic performance (see yesterday's post) there are some hard choices to make: Do I want it to become more beautiful with high sculptures, or do I want it more to be like a ritual when working with smaller statues (then I can build them faster making more of them)? And I have to remember: there is also the weather factor. Sometimes there is almost no wind and sometimes I have to work hard to even keep my own balance up there.
Some more stones fell from the hill making a nice track in the sand, but some of them stopped in the middle of the sand hill! If I would walk up there to take them back, I would leave marks that won't be straitened out by the wind in a few days. So I made a lasso rope to catch the stones, giving them a fast pull so they would continue making their track. Still there were two stones that I had to catch and pull from up there, leaving a rather strong track (click on 1st picture).
Maite Guerin arrived by boot today! She will help me on location for production but also with giving feedback. And boy I need her! Time flies when you're being obsessed by something and talking to myself is not really inspiring.
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