Retrieved text messages from 2005, a mosaic of impressions. I am posting here only texts I sent (not ones I received) so no confidences have been broken. The context is a trip to Australia, where Matt was invited to open an art fair. The texts begin when we arrive at our stop-over destination of Singapore. [...]
I’ve had a chance to think better of my defensiveness and have gone over yesterday’s post and edited out the rudeness (amusing as it might have been). Personally, I thought my remarks were a way of assuring readers they are not alone in their paranoid fantasies, but I’ve been persuaded this is not the right [...]
Over the past few weeks Matt and I have been working full time on our show ‘Pattern Industry’. We have been enduring the freezing cold in the studio, working wearing scarves, coats and sometimes hats. The radiators warp the stretchers – a problem we experience even without the addition of heat. As we work we [...]
When clients visit the workshop and see gold and silver tesserae they generally ask if I can use a bit in the work they’ve commissioned. I talked yesterday about lustre and its associations in the popular imagination: with kings and princes it’s luxury and wealth, with churches and mosques it’s serious and contemplative, one minute [...]
I went to a New Year’s Eve party last night. Every chair had a reflective silver helium balloon attached to it. There was an art theme. Some guests imagined the balloons referred to Jeff Koons, others mentioned Andy Warhol. You could read it how you liked, but it certainly is the season for the sparkly, [...]