8.00 am. Early-morning admin: emails, registers, and course work uploads. 9.10 am. I returned to the ‘Intercessions’ work. It requires four monitors displaying independent random sequences of words, for which there are 65,536 possible permutations:

Processing was slow; there was not a more efficient way to do it. By lunch, all the sequence sets were ready for loading onto the devices.  The quartet of memory sticks were prepared:

1.40 pm. Following lunch, I returned to ‘Image & Superscription’, for the last time. I’m getting behind on the painting. Late afternoon, I added a another, much thinner layer of matt black to ‘YHWH‘. Once the oil sections have dried, I’ll apply the same technique to those parts rendered in water-based medium.

6.20 pm. Practise session 1. 7.30 pm. Further forward with the exegetical writing for the exhibition. The flesh is weak.