This morning we set up a tent outside (hence the title) and, while Ellie played us some circus tunes, we began covering the sides of the frame with tile adhesive and filling the holes and gaps in the barley twists in order to make sure that the final piece would be as prepared for outside weather as it could be.
We had to set up heaters and heat guns inside the tent (which we had created to keep in the heat) to make sure that everything dried nicely because the weather outside was far too cold. We then mixed the light blue and pink colours and began to add them to the door frame and all of its add-ons in order to begin the painting process.
We had to stop this for a while so that we could have our meeting and discuss how the project had gone, which was good, however we were hoping to have been finished by then, which clearly we were not. I am not sure whether this was due to bad time management or if we had just misjudged how much work we had to do in the time we had been given.
We then began to fit the panels into place as we decided that it made sense to do that first so that Conor could fit the beading in before we started painting it all properly.
Porta Di San Ranieri Project 