Sir Nicholas Serota at 'Baggage'.

Promises are in the end just words aren't they.

 Many words were spoken to me during the week of 'Baggage'. Many of these will pass into the deep recesses of  memory. I can only hope that for the speakers it will be mental images that will remain, little visual mementos of the work they have seen.

Ephemeral postcards.

A visit from Sir Nick

' Unique'; 'Fascinating'; ' Unusual'; ' Bizarre but Beautiful' are some of the comments made by a small but steady stream of visitors to my exhibition 'Baggage' now in its fifth day. As always one of the nicest things about putting up a body of work for public show is meeting lovely, interesting people, not the least of whom was Sir Nicholas Serota on Friday evening. He spent about fifteen minutes in the gallery quietly looking at the work. I felt greatly honoured and privileged. ( Photo to follow next week! )

Although apparently according to one elderly lady ' this is not work that people in St Ives are looking for' there is, it seems to me, an intangible thread connecting my work to this place.

Shrink

Baggage's final choices...

Final choices made this weekend over a couple of the works to be shown in 'Baggage'. These last minute decisions are influenced by a myriad of incidental things....a serendipity, a happenstance....

Hive

PINA is a film about German choreographer Pina Bausch who died in 2009.
www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/pina/pina.htm
The pared back simplicity of the choreography expressed the most profound emotions. The back drops, strange and dis-quietening served to enhance the extreme physicality of the dancers bodies.
What an extraordinary, mesmerising experience watching this film turned out to be.

Wild and Funny....Louise Bourgeois

'Pelt 3' completed this week, the final piece ready for the show in St Ives... and so a little treat in the shape of a brief trip to London.
Walking from the tube through the leafy suburbs of Hampstead where the Freud Museum is situated is like waking into another world. Then to see some of Louise Bourgeois' works in the context of her long years of psychoanalysis was wonderful.www.freud.org.uk/.../louise-bourgeois-the-return-of-the-repressed-/ There were lots of very serious writings, scribbled notes on backs of bits of card and paper but honestly I could almost hear her chuckling.
She is so wild,funny and bizarre it is hard not to come away smiling!

Ruck