W5 - Henry Welcome Up and Running

This week I installed the final bag of plastics to the mosaic, the newsaper flaps hanging from the rafters and covered the whole thing with black plastic. So, problems encountered:

• bits of plastic mosaic dropping off - adjusted my sticking technique to better support weight on wall


• newspaper flaps not really long enough for space - used masking tape to stick ends to rafters


• light coming in through rear plastic wall from window even with dust filters etc down there - stuffed whatever I could find in the studio between the plastic and window


• adjusting the polystrene cladding on the rafters meant the newspaper flaps would drop off - er, just lived with that one and did a lot of picking up!


• when I pulled the plastic over the construction I found I hadn't taken the thickness of the polystyrene into account so while I could tape and staple one side, there was a gap on the other - added more plastic from the large stockpile in the studio.


• wanted to test out the sound system, but the batteries (which I had tested) were dead and the spares I'd brought were the wrong size - I had to live with that one too!


• I wanted to shoot a little movie of the whole thing working together. This posed two problems (a) it was too dark to shoot film (surprise), so I used a little LED torch with the camera and gave the film a Blair Witch Project effect and, (b) I couldn't have the sound running as mentioned so I dropped in the sound file using Windows Movie Maker instead.

Apart from that the plan seems to have worked well. Here are some shots of the newspaper flaps:

And here is the video of Henry Wellcome's Legacy, part 1 up and running: