1. Titles are important. Well, they are to me. This one is an optimistic title, because it assumes I’ve learned something—anything at all—and at art school of all places, where I am quite sure I went to learn nothing—and got close—when I think back to art school and what it […]
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A metaphor will cost. Maybe we could do business over a simile, But if you want an original one You better make sure you can afford it. I can’t offer you rhyme or reason, Because I’m bankrupt. Not just emotionally, I can’t afford the next line, My budget doesn’t cover […]
Landfall 209, 2006 ___ I read the first page of every new novel, I frothed the nozzle of a cappuccino machine badly, steam bursting out like the snort of an angry cow I dined on Weetbix laced with white sugar soaked in puddles of skim milk I […]
Turbine, 2003 ___ There was always something a bit wanton about My Little Ponies. Their curvy plastic bodies, the colour of vibrators and slut flavoured eye shadow, ‘midnight mauve’, ‘blow job blue’, and ‘you know you want to cherry red’. They had painted on doe eyes and glitter stuck to their cheap […]
Pavement, April/May 2001 (Issue 46, page 26) _____ An inherently melancholy mood pervades Michael Harrison’s latest exhibition I’ve Got This Friend. This feeling is captured by peculiar personifications of Harrison’s pet subject: the cat. Harrison’s cats are an intriguing continuation of his interest in the mysterious nature of attraction. The formerly […]