Archive for July, 2007

The Devil Wears Court Shoes

I went to a catholic girls school and in year eleven, as part of our religious instruction, we were required to attend something called “Marriage Encounters”. This involved going to the house of a married catholic couple, along with a group of boys from our catholic brother school, and encountering their marriage. It sounds kind […]

Grumpy?

What’s your “grumpy old man/woman” grumble?
I have two.
The first is how annoying it is that about 8 out 10 shops don’t have their street number written on the front.
The second is people driving into an intersection that isn’t clear, preventing traffic in the opposite lane from turning right!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Face of War

Last night a question rang out from the television which stopped me in my tracks.
“Is your beauty regime only doing half the job?”
“Beauty regime?” I thought. “What beauty regime?”
Since Alain had fitted the shower filter I no longer even used a moisturiser.
I didn’t have a beauty “modus operandi” or even a beauty “system” let alone […]

Fossil? Fossil?

Has anyone seen Fossil lately?

Last night I finished reading the Da Vinci Code, ( I was given a copy, I did not buy it!) and I must say I cannot for the life of me figure out what all the fuss was about. It is a long time since I have read such a badly written, ill-conceived, contrived, and […]

The Guggenheim Collection

Well, today I took my two toddlers and went to see the Guggenheim Collection.
It’s great and I’m totally inspired.
There is one work that I would like to talk about, as it has come under a fair bit of fire on the old Nook.
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres untitled work in question is a large pile of black […]

Art Shmart

It’s a Picasso
A child could have done it
THAT’S A GOOD THING!

The Screaming Silence

I was just going through some of my past work and thought I would post this. It is the script from a show I put together in Amsterdam in 2001. The Work was inspired by the Picasso masterpiece “Guernica.”
The bombing of Guernica was the first time civilians had been deliberately targeted in a war.
Why
Never again. […]