Austmarka | 3 degree | overcast
sleep late
speed through breakfast
avoid the news
focus on muesli
spend the morning in the studio
with the Norwegian artist
we look at each other’s work
talk about Venice
she visited this year
recommended
the Norwegian pavilion
so we look at Camille Normant
who has broken her windows
finding interesting ways
of framing + re-framing
a fabulous space
am inspired by this pavilion
with trees growing
through it
she liked the French piece
a moving tree
complete with root ball
…am not so sure
Sarah Lucas, she thought
childish and poorly made
in photos it looks like
teenage boys
have been let loose
on some mannikins
throw-away gestures
that amuse and deflate
recently saw
Rose Wylie’s paintings
in Tønsberg
and was enamoured of her work
we watch the Frieze film
RW in her garden in Kent
the hours disappear
it’s hard to hold onto them
went in search of materials
need to make something
plan a. was
to focus on making
some video stuff
but need to get lost
in constructing
resort to
spaghetti and pva
a pleasing combo
though not enduring
I follow the shapes
and patterns of
Brutalist architecture
liking the severe
and truncated forms
the planes and the angles
confounding conformity
I sit up sticky fingered
cack handed with pasta
the spindly forms lack
the right mass and volume
but recall the brass mobiles
of Kennth Martin
miss iPlayer
so listen
to audio books online
often so terrible
they’re just noise
in my ear
tomorrow we get out of the village
catching the early bus to town
