Week 8

First week working Monday to Friday! No more restaurant job!
On Tuesday, I finished the bench for Dracula! It is gothic and it was fun! I love welding! Watching the metal melt and then breaking the surface tension. I’m so obsessed I often overdo it. With welding, less is more — I know it, but the obsession is stronger. I want to keep melting and keep adding more metal. It makes me think of bees for some reason — how they puke and build with their little blobs of puke. I’m Maja the Bee! Puke, puke, puke with shiny, silver metal! It suits me — I wear only silver.

With that bench, I could go off! I was doing decorative welds. Little beads, hihi.

Thursday and Friday, I was working on more lanterns — for Hansel and Gretel! Cool, cool, cool!
On Friday morning, the man who ordered them said he didn’t like what I had been making. They didn’t give us proper drawings — more like reference pictures with “I like this… and I like that detail.” We clearly didn’t understand each other.
On Friday, James and I whipped out three new lanterns, which they liked — and the day was saved!

I like working with James! The conversations we have are like therapy. He is like my new dad! We talk about family, about processes, about art, movies, and music. Everything! I admire how much patience he has with us and how much trust he has in me. I want to be like him.