My experience of working life is that it comes in waves. So I've just had a big wave passing through - a number of development programmes running in close succession, involving lots of people, catering for lots of people. This started last week and ended on Thursday with a conference that the development team was running. The point of this long winded explanation is to account for the graphic above. The conference was about a particular part of the IBO curriculum that our schools are starting to offer - and I needed a big print of this thing, called the Learner Profile - so I built this graphic to print vertically hanging vinyl banners from - and printed super big - 6m long (2 and a bit storey's high) and two meters wide. I made five different ones, and hung them as a backdrop to the stage and podium. If you click the picture to open it (it's big - 4mb) you will see that it's made up of a number of different layers blended together: a street market in Sham Shui Po, a frangipani tree, text - the Learner Profile bit - and a big ESF logo. So if you look through the blue layer, by looking through the frangipani shape you will see the market at the back. I felt a bit anxious about this whole thing, this is not what I'm trained to do as a living - nor is it my role to make things like this, and then to go and do it really big as well - but they turned out really well - very groovy and detailed - and I was asked by people at the lunch break to have a lucky draw and let five of the attending schools win one. So all in all worth the risk, and it was cool to see them up in this conference centre, I think its my first ever publically hanging art work - even if its a pretty commercial one.
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