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Monday 29th October 2007 11:01 PM
Tomorrow I'm driving down to Aldeburgh to set up the exhibition. Outside the caravan, Jimmy the donkey is guarding a hired, bright red Volvo estate, packed to the gunnels with art. Obviously, it's the Volvo that's loaded up with art, not the donkey. In the past, I have used Jimmy to deliver small unframed pencil sketches within the York area, but in this case I think the Volvo's more practical.
There are going to be thirty-four slices of art in this multi-grain, exhibition loaf, which was baked in the rayburn of my soul, using paper and oil pastel flour, with my imagination as the yeast, quickened by life's sugar. When it's up in the gallery (where the girl I love is), it'll be fresh out of the soul-aga, and should be still warm. May all the visitors be butter.
This one's called 'Houses playing out in the street'
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ooh I have been busy
Wednesday 24th October 2007 12:22 AM
Hello everybloggy! Sorry for not leaving any morsels this week. I've been mounting, framing, stringing up and naming, in preparation for next week's Aldeburgh exhibition.
The festival want to do a press release for it, and they've asked me to send them a j-peg of the picture below. They referred to it as 'White horse moon pop', which is apparently what it was called in the last show. Having forgotten this, last night I renamed it 'Leave the girl alone or the moon gets it', and made a little title plaque for it.
I think I prefer the original title, but I don't want to destroy the newly made title plaque (they're like dental plaque, but whiter). I'm in a mild quandary.
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a weekend away
Sunday 14th October 2007 8:19 PM
Hello Everybloggy! I thought today, we could just go on holiday, why not! Over these last few weeks, you've had to cope with a sporadic supply of blogs, sometimes of variable quality, and not only that, you've also had to deal with a retinal barrage of outsider art. You must be shattered.
On top of the daily grind of reflection and pottering, I've also had to frame over thirty oeuvres (that means art-works… it's French and possibly pretentious, but I'm using it in this case, because coupled with 'thirty', you get an 'er-er' sound, which subliminally suggests physical exertion. I don't need to tell you this, but I want to be honest with you, because subliminal manipulation is a serious business, and buy one of Rory Motion's paintings I know we've had issues of trust in the past.)
I thought it might be nice to go to Manda Nkwichi, a rather special eco-tourist lodge on the shores of Lake Malawi, Mozambique side (see home page, 'Hi Nyanja'). Even though we're only going there in cyber-space, I'd still recommend you to wear a pair of shorts and take on board plenty of fluids.
We've just come from Malawi into Mozambique, through passport control, which consisted of a nice man called Paul under a mango tree. Jan, the Dutch pilot who's just dropped us off, here on the island of Likomo, kindly agrees to pose, with his plane, on his way back to Lilongwe.
The green boat on the shore is the mighty SS Nkwichi, which will sail us across Lake Malawi to the lodge. I'm so glad we've managed to get away for a while, just the twenty-eight thousand a month of us, without the kids. Are you happy, darling?
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I believe in pixels
Tuesday 9th October 2007 10:24 PM
Here's a variation on 'textorama', that also incorporates flappy bits. The quiet, bearded man that works at the co-op, helped me with the cats.
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frame yourself
Monday 8th October 2007 10:33 PM
Les Miserables comments, 'Is it a quote from the bible? The revised Bourneville edition?'
Well spotted, Les! For those blog-watchers unfamiliar with the revised Bourneville edition, it was written in 1959 by Sir Charles Cadbury, and at the time, caused much consternation in theological circles by referring to Jesus as the Milky Bar Kid. Although marred by crude product placement, (three of the disciples are called Twix, Snickers and Crunchie), the translation has proved to be a bounty bar of wisdom, and a valuable chocolate source of ontological understanding. This particular quote is taken from the Book of Cadbury's Cream Egg, and is about the ultimate triumph of Goo over Evil.
Steve comments, funnily, and quite probably nickably, 'Top painting.. I love the way the I's follow you around the room.'
On Friday I did a stand-up gig in Buxton, next to the Opera House, where the famous sixties/seventies band, 'A Holly', were playing. Afterwards, I drank some sweet, and strangely warm spring-water from St Anne's well, and felt rejuvenated enough to drive the wiggliest way back to York.
This is another picture involving a teapot. Some of you will notice that on the Spice Girl mug, I've bulked out Victoria a bit, because I know she'd have wanted me to.
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