Yes its been a while – so what of it and what of us now?
Richard:
“What’s that about a coffee table?”
The first meeting after the talk: The return of my work:
“By now I will be working on a separate project that takes me away from this blog and this sort of work, but all I can think of – thanks to digital images taken of the work in the show – is how the exhibition was represented and how it has created a means to go on. You called me that Sunday morning or perhaps I called you I am not so sure. You told me you were driving through from Glasgow to pick up your work from the gallery – and then I think you changed your mind and said it would have to be one evening in the following week. I said I would probably be in the studio most nights – so if you could drop the work of for me there that would be great.”
Ross visited my studio for the second time in order to return the work we spent time on together during his first visit a few months before.
The second meeting after the talk and the first meeting after the second visit to my studio: the fleeting hello and sharing of Roses chocolates:
“You have some chocolates stashed behind your display? Can I have one? Yes you can have as many as you like. Thank you I shall take a strawberry cream – how are you and is the book fair busy at all? I am good thanks… how are you? Oh I’m okay thanks feels weird being back on old turf this time last year I was sat in that seat doing the same job, but we had no chocolates to eat then and you’re selling the same publications we sold back in 2010 and 2009… Well here shove some more chocolates up your sleeve and save them for later. Have you been up to much how is the new flat?”
Next meeting, to be confirmed, at Ross’s new flat in Dennistoun to eat burgers off the new retro yellow coffee table
“What’s that about a coffee table?”
What of us now and what of it? Let us not leave it so long until next time.
