An unkempt army styled unemployed bloke is sitting on a wall by the lakes on Pointeso Parkway. He’s conversing with his cleaner mother in law on her way to The Gertz Gallery.
Cleaner: ‘What are you doin’ hangin’ around here? You look like one of those film stars who hang around the posh gallery parties with your shades on…’
Son in law: ‘Jus’ sittin’ on the wall here and seein’ if I can spot any arseholes…but non about today.’
5 mins later.
He stretches his arms, yawning, dragging on his rolly whilst watching his pink uniformed mother in law starting her shift.
‘Yeah…no arseholes today…’ Yawn etc.
X drifts its way through the upmarket executive creative suite, located in the The Gertec Building, Vaconsoft Parkway.
X’s gaze focuses in on art executives cashing share options on the 14th floor of the Art Market Stock Network on the south side of the Parkway.
It’s Saturday afternoon. Three PM. The rows of curators and weekend executives are sitting side by side staring vacantly at the glowing screens of their mobile phones.
Sky outside is a lite bleu.
Waxy faced curators are all sub-twenty seven. The executives are pushing the other side of thirty. The figures prevail in their motionless poses to an empty gallery of darkness…minds keyed into hyperstatistics stalling…collective consciousnesses syncing in unison.
X zooms in on a pre – approved message about to be sent by curator 16.
Press release no. 23.
“We are elated with the support shown and happy to welcome a range of blue chip investors to our register. Despite a challenging market for simulacrum and public relations, the response has been superlative and indicates robust demand in both Pointeso and in the wider networks for leading post relationale players.”
X transferred itself into the third gallery space at the Naze Vale Gallery, panning into a fragmented conversation between the jurors for the Parkway Art Prize and a curator from the exclusionary Parkway Space.
Juror 1…Female…mid-twenties…long black hair…existentialist styled spectacles…quirky eyelashes…cadmium red lipstick.
Juror 2…Male…mid-forties…shaved thinning light hair…heavily tanned…muscular build.
Curator…fairly nondescript…
Curator: ‘This is Helene Yarrow…another juror from The Parkway Open…’
Conversation here is somewhat muffled…background interference…echoes etc.
Juror 2: ‘Ah…I’m Thomas Henchwell…also one of the jurors…well…director…and her entourage…interestingly…trying to capitulate…the problem I had with his work was my question ‘but is there something underneath it yah?…hmmm..but what a real shaaame it couldn’t be more imaginative?’
Juror 1: ‘Yeah.’
Juror 2: ‘The significant post – relational essence looked a bit…well…they do…yah..yep…the arbitrariness of it…could have chosen any one of them.
Juror 1: Voice becomes muffled.
Juror 2: ‘Yah…yep…sure…sure…of course…one can dabble here and dabble there…there you go…(voices become muffled) yeeeah…oh really…ok…hmmm…no she’s part of the Pointeso School…yeah playfulness…creative hub…yah…description…well even the name Neo – opst relationalism is indeed a question for us all…’
The voices fade out as X moves on through to Gallery 5 and is confronted by a tessellated cube of gold rotating freely in the centre of the space.
The aim of the Lexington Hub Forum is to challenge and provoke established thinking by presenting key Pointesian issues and linking these to the opportunities available to the remote based illustrators and designers based in Pointeso and Novia
The Forum embraces local viewpoints and proposes ways in which remote illo – design can be used to improve the Pointeso culture lands. When applied smartly, creativity can boost national and global economies.
Hershel Mayfield has a design agency ‘Lexintonica’ based on Pointeso Parkway.
‘I think it’s kinda cool that I can just kick back in my studio and allow my team to drive around Vaconsofia for inspiration. I’ve got a great selection of illustrators on my books as well. Many of them have got advertising jobs booked up for the next two years. It’s important for my freelancers to chill and have complete free range when it comes to commissions…it’s where the best work comes into play as far as our agency is concerned. How can we empower our designers and illustrators to become thought leaders and influence top-line decision-making? Can Pointesian design and illustration affect economic and social change, both locally and globally? It’s a real no -brainer.’
