Halfway from coal, halfway to diamond

Hello Dreamwidth. I know I said I was going to write here but then I didn't, because your site design is so fucking bad that it makes me want to cry. If this was 1999 I could forgive you, but not in 2010.

In case you didn't know, I'm living in Leipzig Germany while I do an artist residency. I'm making a massive (read: MASSIVE) installation of 1000 paper airplanes suspended in mid-flight. Mein gott. Then, February 1st I'm haulin ass to Berlin.

FINALLY. After saying in 2003 that I was going to do it, I'm doing it. Better late than never, and at many points I thought it was going to be never.

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Let me distract you with a meme.

Where I slept in 2011:

London, UK
Cheltenham, UK
Cirencester, UK
Glastonbury, UK
Minehead, UK
Barcelona, Spain
Villefranche, France
Madrid, Spain
Lisbon, Portugal
Evora, Portugal
Berlin, Germany
Leipzig, Germany

Woo, get me.

2010 has not felt good at many points, but I must say that even at its lowest it's been a damn sight better than any year pre-2007.

What I have done this year:

- hit three years in London and decided I had to leave
- got into a relationship (!! no one is more shocked than me)
- booked it to Portugal
- couldn't stand the heat
- relaunched TMBS which is now bigger, badder and more functional
- finished Hopes and Fears (phase one)
- got an artist residency in Leipzig and moved to Germany
- started and am carrying out the biggest piece of my career to date
- went to five festivals
- watched the sun come up from a 7000 year old stone circle in the Alentejo
- have tackled two languages
- have whittled my possessions down to 20kgs of stuff, most of which I could live without
- have experienced a temperature range of +46C down to -11C
- had two pieces in an art and media festival in Lisbon
- quit smoking
- made a million billion friends
- got a sunburn (first since 1997)
- feel bigger, better, faster, stronger.

I've been busy.

2011 is going to rock the house down. I can feel it.