The Decision making process

lifes big decisions , can sometimes seem a little overwhelming ! personally , i like to whittle down these things through a sketchbook process - take buildings for example , i have worked on tens of buildings over the years , hundreds if you include all of the shortlists , designs and drafts that have led to yet another version of , the original Arts Hole international pop up initiative ....

whether its a buyers or a sellers market there are perils and pitfalls , and it has always been a hard sell " yes i want to use your building for commerce but i don't want to pay you any money for it while im testing the markets " . originally it was hard enough , twenty odd years ago .... now of course , battalions of uni students , ladened with debt are all setting up pop ups , the problem is , that they have been funneled into the idea that in order to do a ' pop up ' in one of these bourgeoise inner city redevelopment drives ...they need to apply to the local authority for a pot of publuc money in order to do so , to cover the rent and rates and overheads ...jeezus i despair, at least my original model was based on the idea of " if it proves to be commercially viable - then the landlord earns a commission of that trade " - to take on a sprawling ramshackle building in a fringe and cheap part of town- fix it up , do an exhibition , make it livable and presentable and commence trade .... oh well , just one of the things that are sent to try us i suppose ! anyway , despite this new wave of government funded competition, when i am taking on a big decision , like taking on a new building in a new country i like to whittle my shortlist down to a column A, a column B. and a third column, a wildcard column C . column A , has all the whistles and bows , its as close to ideal as could be imagined , its usually a little bit over budget ( outlays - transport - renovation or even nominal overheads ) and competition for it is fierce and ruthless ... Column B. is a good all rounder but the concessions and mitigations are more obvious - generally a bit more work than would be ideal ....but its left in the running after the sharks have taken out column A . The Wild Card , the wild card is as the name suggests , the most unusual option - if the fates will conspire to remove column A and Column B then something closer to reckless abandon - a boat - a windmill - a hot air balloon - a field with an old barn on it ... recently , a friend of mine suggested that we set up a youtube channel and a tik tok to cover the proposed upcoming renovations, we set it up to coincide with a brand new digital launch for the various lines of ' merch ' that the brand has come to represent and then do a sort of mini series to cover the day to day running of ' the Arts Hole - Funny Farm ' and ' the Institute for Alternative Learning ' ... food for thought ...