Seeing the light

We are seeing the light - we started grouting small patches today and its looking good. Yes, there's still lots to do but we feel as if we are at least halfway up the mountain. The floor surface is terribly uneven and the slabs shifted when the contracters lifted the floor - its IMPOSSIBLE to match up the lines! My team is brilliant and they are giving their ALL for this commission. I appreciate their effort and hope that we'll be commissioned to do a NEW mosaic which we can put together in the studio and instruct a tiling company to install on site. Our hands, backs and legs are aching and we are taking a break tomorrow. We'll be back at the station on Thursday.

Update on station mosaic

This commission is definitely the most challenging I have ever done and Martin Cheek's words keep coming back to me: "Don't touch it!" and after bitterly complaining to him in an e-mail: "I told you so." Well, what can I say - I have grouted the one corner emblem today - a major accomplishment!

The Cape Town station public are such nice people - they stop, stare at us, some ask questions for example "What are you ladies doing?" and others talk amongst themselves about what they think we are doing and what we should be doing! Most of them are locals from Cape Town but there are also lots of foreigners - mostly from Africa. Hundreds of people pass us by where we are sitting in a fenced off area - we call it "the zoo cage". During the past 2 weeks we have seen people ranging from conservatively dressed office people to scantily clad ladies of the night. Yes, this is Cape Town station - a fascinating place but also a VERY noisy construction site.