An ex-art student in Olby muses with mother on the success of a friend she’s just spotted in the top 100 of the hip Pointeso Dayscreamer Emerging Arts Journal.
Ex student A: ‘I can’t believe that she’s getting all this recognition whilst I’m stuck here. I’ve been trying so hard but it’s just rejection after rejection. I mean, she was a dirty cow in our house… mouldy wet towels lying all over the show…nicotine stained fingernails… Who did all the cleaning around the gaff eh? Yours truly.’ The bitter ex – student points in the direction of her swelling belly.
Mother: ‘Well you know what they say dontcha? -money goes to money. The baby is the important thing now. It’s the posh one’s who are always the scruffy cows anyway. I can spot ‘em a mile off luv…they never polish their shoe heels and always stand on your right hand side to get the upper hand. Your time will come…’
Ex student A: ‘She does all that schmoozing around all the art directors and keeps goin’ on about the importance of rigorous research and shit…’
Mother: ‘Aye…they all talk with plums in their gobs’
Ex student reads ‘Auld Mater’ a short bit of the blurb:
‘Fingers crossed Secoza will be making neo – geometric floor piece at the Naze Vale outpost space Airportella as these arranged, fragile seeming assemblages are knockouts. Her floor and wall pieces have collage feel but with more of an early nineties surrogate latent graphic sensibility.’
Two days later Amellie Secoza reads a message on her social network page on a coffee break at Airportella.
‘Hi Melzie, just seen your piece in the Dayscreamer Arts Journal…congrats…well impressed…must meet up for coffee…I’m in Pointeso in two weeks time…’
