Today I began resolving how to manage this huge work on my own, to prepare it for mounting and framing… I decided to cut it into three sections. It’s way too big and fragile, with its countless pins, for me to move and turn the whole work - even with help it’s too precarious. So, cutting it into sections that can fit snuggly back together once backed with silk organza, was the best solution. Here are some photos of my work in the studio (I do have a permit as there is no-one else in the building currently and I cannot do this work from home). Once each section is stabilized at back, with a layer of Vliesofix and silk organza, it can be pinned into the two layers of mount board - one layer of museum foam-core which lies under the blue area, and then a larger museum and Kapa board mount, into which the whole work is pinned and onto which it will float. A huge painstaking process, but one I’m excited to have begun resolving today! Extra motifs will be added to the top, bottom and sides (blue-birds, flowers, butterflies etc), as the side friezes that were included for the bed installation had to be cut away for framing and will form a new, separate artwork titled “Rest-aura”.