Well, it’s been a week since I last updated this blog. I wish I could say that I’ve achieved loads in that week but I haven’t. Work,my wifes 50th and union duties seem to have conspired against me. Of coarse there’s also my own innate lazyness my fear of failure and my fear of success thrown into the mix. Still, I may not have done any physical work towards my goal but I have done huge amounts of mental work. I haven’t stopped thinking about and,on occasion, talking about what I want to do as an artist.The thing is there is nothing linier about my practice. I seem to wander of in all sorts of directions.An example of this happened this week when I felt inspired by found objects.Simple enough when I started,just picking things up that I found on the street,old newspapers ect. Except I started to think for something to be found it has to have been lost and the things I’m picking up aren’t lost there discarded and anyway how do I know that anything I pick up hasen’t been discarded rather than lost.The inspiration for found objects has become mired in an internal debate about what is a found object. This is usual for me and it drives me crazy. On a completly different subject I recieved an invitation from Gallery Gora in Montreal, Canada today asking if I would like to show some of my work, $2700 for a solo show or $275 for a group show.Does anyone know anything about them?
