http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog four artists, four ponds... Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:18:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over 25mm of rain fell over the weekend and helped to fill all the vertical pipes fed by the largest group of funnels. So the water is now moving into the horizontal pipes on the surface of the pond.  http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=28 Hoorah  …good rainfall has at last set the rain harvester working almost daily  and the rain water caught in the funnels is now moving down hill channeled through the flexible pipes and into the sequences of vertical tubes.  Some nights up-to 11mm of rain fell. http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=26 Week beginning 5th August Serious production began to make 90 rain catcher units. Four different sizes of plastic funnels where used to make 6 different unit designs, one of which was later ditched. Each size of funnel had a slightly different fixing system, dictated by the weight of the ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=16 Here we are at the end of the opening day chilling with a few bottles of red, having not written on the blog for 3 weeks now. Spent most of that time in leaking waders, wetsuits or boats making art & being blown off course in howling gales… do we exaggerate?! The ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=15 Just about to head back down to the ponds after a few days away from the art coal face! A couple of weeks ago I spent a really valuable few days experimenting with materials, making a silicon mould and casting hundreds of tiny wax houses. A good day was also ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=13 I have decided to use this opportunity to ‘blog’ as a way of recording the process of making & installing ‘rain harvester’ and to record the way in which the three different elements of the work catch and channel the water into the reservoir tubes set within my pond. With ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=11 Today was my first chance to launch three of my grass islands on the pond. I knew they'd float because I'd tested them at home but I hadn't realise how deep the water was. This made positioning the islands rather frightening, the mud was sucking at my waders and made movement difficult. I ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=8 Hello my name is Cynthia Morrison-Bell, the curator of the Flow exhibition. This time last summer, I sat down with the artists and we discussed the idea of an exhibition set on this series of freshwater ponds.  It has taken a whole year to get this exhibition funded and organised, ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=6 I'm having a major issue with bubblewrap, can I really use it to depict cyanobacterial mats? I've been stuffing the bubbles with shredded blue/green plastic bags and sometimes I feel the scale and effect is just right - and using recycled materials is good - other times I find myself thinking: plastic floating on ... http://flow-exhibition.co.uk/blog/?p=5