Create

Curate

Collect

all attempts to address (control) ownership of the creative act and its issue.

Owning is a form of creativity.

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Looking at the primal matter and activity of human consciousness is like staring into the crater of an active volcano filled with potential for creation and destruction and its going on ALL THE TIME.

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Art is a concretisation of value in all its definitions.

Money is a symbol of value.

Art Is Value.

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I approached the publishing house Faber and Faber based in Bloomsbury, London with a view to placing one of my sculptures in their offices. The sculpture (Wasteland (2014) Ancaster limestone, approx 13/13/5″) is one of a series i made (2014-15) in response to my reading of The Wasteland (TS Eliot) and its notes and references. TS Eliot was published by and worked as Editor for Faber and Faber from 1925 to his death in 1965 (the year i was born).

The sculpture references the episode in the Modernist poem called ‘A Game Of Chess’ and is intended to convey a sense of desolation in the space between the two opposing collonades, suggesting abandoned avenues and buildings, as conjured in the Modernism of De Chirico. The space can, however be occupied by the viewer.

They have accepted my proposal and I now need to arrange insurance, a time to deliver the piece (which is very heavy) and think of a way of harvesting reactions, if any.