Had a bit of downtime this week, recovering from the grant application. Fingers crossed, I believe I put in the best proposal I could, so hopefully I’ll get the finance.
Most of the productive time this week was devoted to getting the armature for the UWS piece constructed. My original plan was to build it in PVC pipe, and then fill that with concrete. Unfortunately, after consulting with a cousin who’s a builder, I figured that the concrete would be too brittle, so I moved to galvanised threaded pipe. This has some significant advantages – it’s strong, self supporting, has readymade connectors, and won’t rust outdoors. The only problem was getting closed loops to work, because the pipe isn’t flexible. The solution to that was a PVC elbow or connection in those couple of places, which doesn’t appear to have effected the structural integrity to any great extent, and gave me the little bit of wiggle room necessary to close off rectangles.
In the next week the job is to get the green side mounted to the armature, and then build the coloured side. I’ve got some good ideas for how the mounting system will work, and hopefully the coloured side will be able to be made relatively self supporting, so it can be hung as a single unit on the armature, but that’s a nice if you can have it, cuttable option.
The other big news is that Derby Daze [squareformat] has been submitted to Apple, so hopefully should be available in the next week to 10 days. I’m really happy with how it’s turned out, as there were a few interesting challenges to overcome, but it has further cemented my working method for creating these books.