Arrival in Ullapool
20/01/07 22:05
I have arrived.
Been sitting up with the daughter of the family I'm staying with. She's at art school in North Uist. I can't believe it; I came all this way, to the edge of the country, to test myself about who I am and the way I make art, and here is someone who's already at it. I thought I'd be the "only artist in the village" but they're bloody everywhere. Oh, and the other irony is that she's thinking of transfering to Falmouth to complete her course, so I'm not even the only one with the 'ends of the earth' thing.
I was going to write about the journey, but I'm exhausted. It's been a mental 24 hours, since having goodbye drinks in the Ha!Ha! bar at London Victoria, a sweaty Megabus ride and arriving here late afternoon. I haven't had much sleep anyway over the past fortnight, and my budget travelathon only put the icing on an already-collapsing cake, so here are some more photographs, and I'm off to bed.
Been sitting up with the daughter of the family I'm staying with. She's at art school in North Uist. I can't believe it; I came all this way, to the edge of the country, to test myself about who I am and the way I make art, and here is someone who's already at it. I thought I'd be the "only artist in the village" but they're bloody everywhere. Oh, and the other irony is that she's thinking of transfering to Falmouth to complete her course, so I'm not even the only one with the 'ends of the earth' thing.
I was going to write about the journey, but I'm exhausted. It's been a mental 24 hours, since having goodbye drinks in the Ha!Ha! bar at London Victoria, a sweaty Megabus ride and arriving here late afternoon. I haven't had much sleep anyway over the past fortnight, and my budget travelathon only put the icing on an already-collapsing cake, so here are some more photographs, and I'm off to bed.
