I was supposed to spend summer working on this project, but with the demoralization brought on by my impending unemployment, a week away in Spain to lift the spirits seemed more in order. Normally on these trips the UK comes out very badly and the alternative culture very well, but actually for once it was all the UK bit of the journey that work and accomodation and transport in Spain that was more problematic. But I spent a good week away meeting Spaniards and trying to forget my troubles. The crisis there is worse than here, but we all had a good time. Madrid seemed to have more graffiti on walls even in posh places than London, but whether that is knowledge opening my eyes I do not know. And the art in the Sofia Reine gallery was huge sometimes disturbing and definitely displacing, but perhaps that is what it should be.
But I came home determined to catch up a bit and so spent the day at my brothers trying to get to grips with photoshop. I like what I have done, but had to come back home to print the stuff and was once again confronted by problems cos of the lack of memory left on my computer. I also seem to have lots of ink cartridges but none with any ink in them, so my print is very faded, but at least I have some sense of what it should look like. So thanks to bro for the lend of equipment and thanks to nephew for his patience and good instruction.
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