Day 6

Monday 23rd March 2009

One of the first things today’s artist told me about the studio was “this is where they used to bring the cows…for slaughter.”

This history was not apparent in my host’s studio, it was fairly typical: very cold, damp, leaking roof, full of standard workshop equipment, obscure furniture and intriguing pieces of machinery – but on the occasions I glimpsed any of the dark adjoining rooms, their white tiled walls, and drainage points in the floor, were an unsettling reminder.

Irrespective of these neighbouring rooms, Leo and I worked very happily side by side – him bringing an old electronic organ back to life and me stringing chairs up from the ceiling and balancing cymbals on planks of wood.