Budget without credit crunch

How difficult it is to make a plan and stay within budget. Over time so many changes, additions, ideas and possiblities that shape an idea into a form that can be build with the money available.

End November the plans were drawn up and in December a final budget was made, and hey presto: it costs to much. How to adapt the plans, and the building of it and keep focussed on creating something that contains my initial ideas, is the question.

The interesting bit is the notion that an artist is not an isolated, autonomous figure. We are part of ‘the artworld’, a complex social cultural system shaped by many forces (people, institutions, technology, infrastructure, events, capital etc.) and the way they interact. The project is shaped by all the forces that have a baring on it, and I’m trying to find a way to work with it.

Now we have new plans which go back to the original ideas and proposals, creating a platform, open pavilion with only the curved walls. We are almost there!