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Hey Rachel,

Sorry I have been a bit distant of late. Our big CNZ Completion Report is due on Monday. So I have been rushing around trying to do that all week. We finally got it sent off yesterday, and I felt a great relief to see it sailing away into the postbox. One gets tired of talking in CNZ speak for too long, I was sick of 'fostering artistic communities'...............

Anyhoo, back to the show!! I'm excited. I think 'Continous Memory' is a great title, because it suggests the concept of time working in unexpected ways, and particularly the idea of the past never truely being past but always impinging on the present. I had a quick look on Wikipaedia for 'continuous memory' and it had a little blurb which said that it indicated that 'the calculator can preserve its memory contents at all times'. It highlights the impact and force of the past on the everyday.

I also find the visual trope of the calculator very appealing. Aesthetically, it is a great shape and pleasingly square. Your work so far has always been a little Pop, and I think retro seventies calculators definitely work with that.

Building the lift/black bag box in the middle of the space shouldn't be a problem. We will just need to source a lot of plain black bags from somewhere, and also some poles to form the opposing sides. I'm not quite sure what you mean about the 'head side of the box' is that on the liftspace? And do you still want to use this space for the performance? What do you think about having the performance on opening night?

I'm not very familiar with Stephen Hawkins texts, apart from the obvious Brief History of Time, so can't offer much advice on that one, although I shall endeavour to do some research. With Barbara, I find the idea of using some of her old texts very appealing, before she built up to her current 1 book a second momentum.

This is quite long, I'll write more in a bit!
Tom xxxx