botany 1 0... er... 2

On the advice of the guy that sold me my Pachypodium seeds I have removed the seedling from it's polythene bag and am instructed to treat it as a cactus henceforth. As a beginner botanist, I have only a vague notion of what this means: don't water over winter, water in summer but wait until the soil is dry between showers. So that's what I'm doing, it's soil was dry when I took it out, partly due to that fleshy little succulent trunk...:

...so I gave it a little shower. My housemates said I should name it, so now it's called Dnendna. I was reserving that name for my first cat, but, momentous occasion that this was, it felt right to give it to the Pachypodium baby.

In other news, work for my exhibition is almost finished and I am preparing to go and install it next week:

I've been drawing underground stations this week for a new series of works called Negotiating the Tangle the beginnings of which will be on show at a&e, along with sculptures old and new and a couple of animations on nice old tellies. Flat screen is such a commodity!