Site visit

Can't believe how thrilled I feel to go to work at the Southbank Centre. Today was our weekly meeting and then a long site visit measuring and plotting and realising our ideas. It was an massive step in our imaginations to be able to have absorbed so much knowledge/history about the place and then to return. One skill I have learned from working artistically in buildings is map making. I can quickly orientate myself and remember room shape and details. I busily sketch rooms and we measure knooks and ceilings. We are working with a tech producer who says 'no' to everything. We understand that we just need not ask at this stage. Everyone else on the Southbank team says 'yes', or they will 'ask the question to see if it can be possible'. The Purcell room walls are incredible. Yehudi Menuhin stamped his foot saying he could not play violin in an a-symetric room.... as a result the back walls to the Purcell Room stand like fantasy mountain sides...... We work long hours, think about detail and global ideas to make the exhibition flow. We worry about the clock, we trust ourselves to know that we will make this work.