100 solar powered rowing boats competing in the sunlight.
This is just a test, and it works. Good fun too.
This is just a test, and it works. Good fun too.
I saw the flotilla going down the Thames for the Queen's Jubilee Pageant on the TV the day after I filmed this, and while there's no intended connection with that it did make me smile. I did have a shocking 'oh bloody hell' moment a couple of weeks ago, when I stumbled across a real connection with the Jubilee that I'd have preferred to avoid, but how was I to know the Spirit Of Chartwell would interfere with what I've been surreptitiously beavering away at for the past few months? Things should be back to normal now. Well, more normal anyway.
This is half of the consignment of boats that arrived earlier this week from China. I've still got quite a bit of assembly time ahead of me to put the remainder together - it's not complicated but when you've got 200 of anything a bit fiddly to build, that's ages. It's either zen or really irritating, and I guess the zen trick is to convince yourself it's zen.
The boats will need to be partially dismantled again so I can get them into their final location as easily as possible, so this lot are only temporarily assembled. I know they won't fall apart once the oars are attached properly, but I will have to do a bit of weatherproofing to keep the water out.
I am now wrapping up the preparation stages of my Legacy installation - there might be one more thing to check out, but I'm kind of there now with the preparation. All will be revealed shortly.
This is half of the consignment of boats that arrived earlier this week from China. I've still got quite a bit of assembly time ahead of me to put the remainder together - it's not complicated but when you've got 200 of anything a bit fiddly to build, that's ages. It's either zen or really irritating, and I guess the zen trick is to convince yourself it's zen.
The boats will need to be partially dismantled again so I can get them into their final location as easily as possible, so this lot are only temporarily assembled. I know they won't fall apart once the oars are attached properly, but I will have to do a bit of weatherproofing to keep the water out.
I am now wrapping up the preparation stages of my Legacy installation - there might be one more thing to check out, but I'm kind of there now with the preparation. All will be revealed shortly.
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