Elaine asked if I needed showing how to turn on/set up the projector for Teresa and Dominique. I said it’s OK, you did it. Elaine laughed. I didn’t mean……
It seems that my comment is negative but that’s not the case. I watched Elaine set up the projector earlier in the day and didn’t think the projector was able to project a reversed image but Elaine went through the menu and hey presto the text flipped so that it was the right way round when viewed from the outside. So, I knew that following the menu logic, I too would be able to set up the projector if it didn’t automatically default to the way Elaine had set it up. Which it did, phew! Is this making sense? The point, the point is, my comment, assumption, was actually positive.
My practise is based on this fact/fiction “I could do that.” You too could wrap wood in hazard tape.
‘Constructive criticism’ from the man eating his pie sat in the chair outside the shop. He liked it better when I was in the shop, moving. I asked if art had to have movement. He wanted to know what it represented. I asked him what he thought it looked like. He reckoned it was some kind of barrier, stopping you. We moved to the right so we were looking down the tunnel. I agreed that if you were approaching it from the sides then it does look like a barrier but what if you approach it from the front, is there a way in? He liked it more from the front, looking directly in, ‘perspective’ he said. Who was going to buy it he asked. I told him I didn’t think anyone was going to buy it but that was part of ‘it’; part of the exhibition, exhibiting in a space traditionally used to sell. He said if he had a room long enough he might like it.
Yesterday the local skate shop used the fridge doors and the magnetic letters to advertise a party. Today there was only abuse!
