finally, some progress on the badges.

finally i found the motivation to finish off the badges for the exhibition. i started these way back in october last year. and since then they have been sitting around staring at me, waiting patiently for me to do something with them.

i have been doing the drawings for the badges slowly over many weeks, and then i was busy finishing off the 2 other large tile pieces for the exhibition. then last week, somehow the torture of not making out weighed the torture of making. sometimes that is what i need before i can actually get on with making.



this was my kitchen table, badges ready, stencils ready.

i spent an hour or so sandblasting these, and while i was doing that i had a brilliant idea about how i might display these in the exhibition.

i have been saving a box full of these cardboard squares for about 5 years now, thinking they will come in handy for something one day. that day is here! each badge has a magnet backing that holds the badge to the cardboard. the cardboard is then pinned to the wall with a finishing nail. there is a simple rough beauty to the badges and the cardboard, so i think they are a perfect match.

i go to the photographers next week to get the large 130 tile piece photographed as well as the finished badges, i will post those professional shots once i have them.