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At the weekend I was asked to DJ at the Temporary Art School closing party at Limousine Bull. I thought it would be a cool space to DJ in so I thought hey why not. However after meeting with Bones & Money and after much deliberation we decided that it wasn't worth taking all our equipment down when we were told the atmosphere was "mellow" (not the words a DJ wants to hear prior to a gig). I felt like I learned a life lesson that night. That is, when something isn't going to work the way in which you thought it was then maybe you should should just accept this and not do it. Don't follow through with something that is going to be a compromise as such.

This post isn't about failed gigs it's actually about Neon. As I was going to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Monday we drove past a Neon shop with a very welcoming sign... "your name in lights- any neon you want- we'll bend it". I invested a lot of time last week into glass bending, enchanted by the process yet deep down in my head thinking- is this the best use of my time? Is it? I don't know. I have mixed influences as one tutor seems very encouraging and another said to me exactly what I explained in my story - when something isn't going to work the way in which you thought it was then maybe you should should just accept this and not do it. The best thing I can do is follow my instincts so I'm going to go to this shop tomorrow and see what they say. I think a lot of doubt lies in that I am uncertain about the materials I am using. The biggest concern being- even if I do manage to bend the glass will they be able to fill it with neon! If I do decide to make a 3D sculpture out of the glass bends is that just a poor compromise and a sign of failure. The answers will come in time.

I'm working at the Aberdeen Arts Center this week assisting a children's animation class, it's time consuming so I havn't got much done this week- that and the mole thing. Biggest disappointment about getting a mole removed was that I didn't get to look at it through a big microscope! They do that in a laboratory. My mole, alone in the laboratory....or maybe it's with other moles.....digression. form. point. Oh yes. Even though I haven't been hard at work in the studio, it certainly has been time to reflect on my priorities.