Well paper got excepted for Boston so we have to do something now - I'm concerned about my Carbon footprint if we end up flying. I think they will like the English breakfast thing in notions of the other. Spent today carving a breakfast - it's made from Geleton a grainless wood traditionally used to cut patterns for sandcasting - felt more like prop making than carving but I like it and it made me look closer. It's good to have Tim making comments he clearly thinks about it - or perhaps he just needs some egg and bacon round at our house rather than all them french croissants.
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I finished my croissant and coffee e'en before I'd started it just to make a point. Now the chances are thin of you arriving in Boston to find that there is no session for you but that would be fine wouldn't it? I find I like the breakfasts but I'm not sure how they come before themselves. There is the risk of disappointment in such a strategy. The chicken came before the egg or vice versa so maybe this is about causality then? The object at Artemis having an origin that is not the object of Artemis itself? So this carved breakfast is the genesis for the real one which is true in the sense that the breakfast's representation (on the blog and in discussion) depends on its abstraction through art. Thus how does one avoid repetition? Perhaps that is the before after all....
I think maybe you are seeing things in a different way as they splurge onto the Blog. the breakfast thing is more about the idea of representation and Motif than objects before they become. Although this roundabout idea sort of hovers above everything. The breakfast presents a disruption of the Habitus of the collection - it is difficult to define as an art object or exhibition model - it has a clear educational and literal reading but also questions what and why teachers borrow artefacts from the collection. It's sort of a piece which grew from and hopefully effects the site of the work. It will be put in a perspexs box and potentially loaned to schools not shown in a gallery. But the process around it's creation will have a wider life - so the question "Where is the work?" springs to mind well hopefully the work will exist across multiple domains and sites and within the crossings - it will gain meaning. On a simple level the wood and the hyperreal breakfast became because we made them and now we are constructing a narative which makes them real and situates them. The breakfast could be anything but I like it as it is clearly a conceptual construct rather than an artefact which makes us question the status of other objects and the lables and meaning we attach to them.-
Thanks for the explanation. Makes perfect sense. No more splurges I'll just get carried away. :]
hey tim, please continue to splurge, its good to hear from someone with a different take on things, plus its good to hear from you in darkest southern france - kate at steves house
OK.
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