An artist is waiting in Citrosa cafe on Vaconsoft Parkway – North Pointeso.
Kelia takes another swig of her flavourless tea. The whispered hum of digitised conversation coming from the gobs of suited curators and agents are chilling her to the bone.
She looks out of the window.
The crows are back outside on the astroturf chomping pixels.
She is scrolling on her tablet.
‘ambitious exceptional artist networks’ who ‘are ready to take their person centred work to the multi-national market’. The residency will be in ‘an unusual space ‘. Shortlisted artists will take to our bespoke singular commissioning process, born from an open-ended conversation with an artist offered the opportunity to imagine something extraordinary. The Vellestico agency is powered by a quasi ecclesiastical belief that artists (per se) are capable of creating visionary works which impact upon the way we view our world, our times and ourselves in idiosyncratique and enduring ways.’
She coughs splintered red pixels into a pale hankerchief before heading on down to the gallery floor.
