The Moon Boat sets sail!

Posted by Tiggy Salt on April 16th, 2007

A short week, this, with Monday being swiped by Easter and the terrifying deadline of Friday 13th (!) set for the Client’s Brief to be completed. I got it in 15 minutes ago, as I write on Friday afternoon at 5.37.

It was actually a really interesting exercise, distilling all my thoughts about the garden into the strict word limit. Each and every sentence had to be perfectly pitched and pull its weight. After months of talking about it, dreaming it, it was going to be condensed into 480 short words. When you are so close to a subject, it becomes impossible to view it objectively and relate all the relevant details which might seem obvious to you and not worth reiterating. Anyway - it’s gone, I’ve pressed the send button, and that’s that!

Now what do you think of the boat? I’m blown away. She - I think she is a she, as most moons and boats usually are, and such a thing of beauty deserves the recogniton of a gender - is incredible and I can’t wait to meet her in the flesh. She’s currently in the South of France where Steve of Fletcher and Myburgh lives with his family, and she sets sail for England next week.

I managed to have a quick catch up with Steve when he was on a flying trip to London last week, and it was fascinating to hear him talk about the evolution of the piece from its conception. He has pitched it slightly to give it a feeling of animation and managed to use burnished steel for the moon, a process he has never seen used before. The moon rests gently on the boat with the delicacy of an eyelash and soars upwards into a dramatically graceful apogee or apex. If you’ll excuse the expression, her rear end is her best angle and to fully show it off (!) we are juggling around the organisation of the garden.

We are going to lose the right-hand flanking wall to take full advantage of the fact that we have no neighbour on that side. This will also solve the problem of the garden appearing too box like and it can now communicate more easily with its surrounding landscape. Does this make any sense? I am assuming that you are all as obsessed with this as I am, and that you all have a copy of the updated garden in front of you, which is an impossibility since it doesn’t exist!

That reminds me, I had better shut up now and get back to the drawing board!

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