Too Close for Comfort

Four weeks to go.
In my original, ambitious and, probably a bit naive, self-written brief I wanted to be finished making COMPLETELY by now. Yet what I have to show is no-where near gallery-exhibition standard.
My diary has been wiped of all other commitments (save coaching, hockey and a spin class!) and a big 'JEWELLERY' scrawled across most of the pages for the next 12 days. A big making blitz.
I don't like the feeling of this pressure, yet without it, I appear unable to make. Blinded in the headlights of 'oh I have ages' and not knowing quite where to start....until the due date gets so close that there is no question of WHERE to start anymore.
I seem to work best in big fits and bursts of making.
This will have to be something to factor into my work time-line in the future.
Go with the grain, not against it.

Yet, while Ive been ever so slowly getting to the point of enough pressure to get me making, I've been thinking of ways I can change the way I work and think and make.

My ways are too linear. I think of something, I draw it up, then I make it.
Ta-da!

But I never move within the idea, or change. I've spent too long NOT making and out of an environment where I am constantly pushed to try new things and experiment, that I've forgotten how to do it.

After this I have a 24-ish week gap before the next exhibition. So some time to sit down and have a think about 'where-to-next' and some new fresh ideas, or at least ways of making.

Bring back the experimentation...and perhaps bring a few more tools into the wee workshop to help!