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another country: john timberlake
John Timberlake teaches fine art at Middlesex University. He has a long-term interest in landscape & the apocalypse. Unable to attend his “Landscape & Eschatology” conference earlier this year at Tate Britain, & interested in how John’s own work interacts … Continue reading
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“keep your eye on your inner world”
Dorothea Tanning’s death at the end of January filled me with anger & depression. The more I look at why, the less obvious it seems. I didn’t feel like that when Ballard died. Keep your eye on the object centre … Continue reading
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futile attempts at denial
Subtle new entry at Rejectamentalist Manifesto. & speaking of the weird, Eleanor Crook’s astounding sculpture here. (Thanks, Lara.) My favourite–if that’s the right word–is “Eustache”. I wouldn’t want Eustache within a mile of me at night. If I found that … Continue reading
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Sommer, Somerfield, Deakin
John Timberlake recommended Frederick Sommer’s photography & now I’m obsessed by this chicken. Some of John’s own work can be seen here. Roger Deakin writes on page four of Waterlog (1999): “Most of us live in a world where more … Continue reading
Filed under ghosts, media, the postmodernised landscape
send me a neon heart
I love neon, so I was interested in Peter Conrad’s recent piece in the Observer, especially this– Across the clinical white walls of the gallery, Emin scribbled a maudlin love note in pink neon tubes that looked like extracts from … Continue reading
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Two of the beauties of John Coulthart’s site are its energy & its breadth of interest. You never know what you’re going to learn next & you can never decide which link to follow first.
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burn your stuff
Brian Duffy nails it in an interview with the Guardian– With all this going on, why did he stick with photography? “I loved it,” he says. “But it was only enjoyable because it was mysterious. The revelation [about why a … Continue reading
tuning
Adrian Searle seems to be trying a bit hard to catch the importance of Eggleston’s “forgotten corners and empty spaces”, but this will do: “he tunes your eyes and makes you notice things”.
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something about being alive
I didn’t expect to blog again this year, but here’s something. I’m often drawn back to this Vivian Maier portrait of a woman in a diner. There is such a human quality in her expression, & something so convincing about … Continue reading
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actually I’m just completely fucked off & tired of it
This sums something up for me. I like Gormley’s work & I like people, but One And Other doesn’t seem to be either, just the usual insane undignified late Capitalist babel. Big Brother on a stilt. Why are “the people” … Continue reading
Filed under outright politics, the postmodernised landscape
