Another Beastly Art Exhibition is on its way, but not closely enough yet for publicity images, Facebook events or web pages. Nevertheless, much of the work I've been doing over the past couple of months is in preparation for the exhibition in the middle of November. No pots while I'm in France, but textiles work, cards and earrings can all be made here and the work you see at an exhibition has often been made months ahead, as I think I've mentioned here before.
As I was working away yesterday, I was aware that I'd achieved quite a bit but at the same time had nothing new to show for it and began to think about how much of not only putting on an exhibition but generally running an arts/crafts business consists of hidden tasks. I've already created a slideshow which shows many of the hidden tasks which go into making a mug. I sometimes have it running at exhibitions but if you've never seen it, you can also see it here on my website.
Recently I've been meaning to tweet more than I have been doing as I realise my focus has been much more on Facebook and that this isn't fair to those who prefer Twitter. I announced on Twitter that I would treat the beginning of September as a new year, since it heralds a new academic year, and therefore my new year's resolution was to tweet more often and more interestingly.
Ah. You see what I did there? Placed my own petard roundly centre stage and hoist myself on it.
Luckily a solution sprang to mind: tweets about individual hidden tasks. There are so many of them. Just today I've done about five of them already. I shall probably select the tasks somewhat randomly although they may appear in related clutches.
If you are on Twitter but not yet following me, then this is the chance you've been waiting for. There's a link to my Twitter page just over there on the right of this piece.
To kick things off, today's hidden task is reproduced here:
#hiddentask no 1: design sticky label for packaging for new product and print out a sheet of them.