Books

Tuesday and back at g39/WARP and now Elbow room's library in their new space. Cavenous and cool, it is housing storage boxes and an 18ft Christmas tree that is dwarfed by the space. Its a bit surreal just braced into the mainframe of the structure.

I spent 5 very happy hours in the library, currently a small well lit room with empty white shelves, an apple mac and the most gorgeously wondrous scanner I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Its an Epson and it has a dual lens system. Its p*** easy to use and even makes crappy images look good and great ones look incredible. Plus its quick and it allows you to name and number things seperately so you can helpfully scan books and keep track of how many you have done, have the same description but different sequence numbers. Its so nice when things just work! Yay for Epson.

I'd been chomping at the bit to get the books out of their boxes even whilst packing them away. The range of books is quite amazing, some early arts council publications like "Paintings of Welsh People" and loads of collective Estonian contemporary artists books, many bilingual books and some on architecture, some chinese works, japanese works, Chapter show catalogues as you might expect but also all sorts of mad things like the Creative Whack Kick Game, I really need to look into that more, its a pack of cards that when you play it makes you think differently and gets you out of a creative black hole, also sculpture park guides on suggestions for ideas for sculpture. Basically its a unique wide ranging group of books and magazines and stuff that will one day with my help be on line and searchable and usuable by anyone on the Wales Artist Resource Programme, you could learn stuff, entertain yourself or make artworks out of what you find there.   I want to read them all and get an honorary Phd, Ok I'll settle for an MA.

Tomorrow I'll be the new girl again. May just last two days but its cardiff Uni and I am looking forward to that. I'll let you know if I meet the perfect hole punch or similar.

Jen