Saying something.

comb & coloured clay

Having a long term relationship with someone is a challenging project, as challenging as making art or anything else worthwhile. I guess the impetus is love (at the end of John Baldessari’s advice for young artists, he says you’ve gotta love your subject – that’s what keeps you going). Oh my god, Baldessari is the perfect teacher artist. I don’t know why I hadn’t thoroughly looked at his practice earlier. It really feels like I’ve been unknowingly making second-rate copies of his work for the past three years.

Aside: reading an essay by Alain Joxe made me realise that Violence is not a point, its a circle.

People should use mobile phones in a more useful and interesting manner. I’m fascinated by my mobile number, I’ve always wanted to use it in an artwork.

I went through a period of using pay phones alot and I would often send people anonymous text messages (in a positive, not creepy way).

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Maybe its about time that you sent me a text message?

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I think that if I had to design a giant billboard I would probably just put my phone number on it.

Finally, I remember that as a child my one great ambition was to grow up to be the sort of adult that you could wake up in the middle of the night and discuss things like space, eternity and nothingness (and I wouldn’t be grumpy and I wouldn’t want to change the subject). I’m a great believer in the validity of late night thoughts.