The Empire state Building

Kim red faced in a yellow Cab admits to her first doorstop crime. "Steve I've stolen you something " "What a doorstop? does it say the empire states building on it?" No it says the 86th Floor" Did you get a photo of it in situe" "No it was too busy for that" "Perhaps I like doorstops because I'm reading Hiedegger and the doorstop is always at hand in the world not just in the world - they are reflections of the notion of dazine often hand made and always warn through use and function - a metaphor for an open avenue of thought a gate propped open - a thing with potential agency in the world " Kim "Shut up you wanker"

But she still took the doorstop.

Sorry I havent blogged for a while

and now I have to go and get Molly from school but just wanted to say I have been writing articles on disappearing objects and museum collections and fake objects including elephants sprayed gold and things you pick up at jumble sales that look valuable but aren't.
I am also writing about bling and gold and how gold is both a core valuable thing and something that is very ephemeral.
Here are some pictures.
Other things I did this week:
I finished Evocative Objects and read Walter Benjamin Art in the Age of Illusion.
It was quite hard.
Is that where the aura scorer idea comes from?
YOu should patent it.

lost ?

well, currently fighting with function and insinuated function within the work im making.
How to represent measurements in a way that means i do not just remake tools for the job, but also do not just make boring objects that are dead, clean, new looknig and a bit boring. How to make a library look like a library and not like a faux library.
i can collect through drawing but how does this make them not just fetishised canoes? yes the object is valued, celebrated and invested with time, looking and thought, but its not real.
If i make the measurements as objects they look like country pub items.
But it seems that the chain me dad and i used yesterday, that he made for various jobs- sums up the everyday, the violence, the creative, the reality of the farm. So how do i show it, its function, the meaning, its narrative and its value in an authentic way?
Sorry steve, more questions that no one has to answer specifically
Also photo of my plate post breakfast, interesting in a lost, imagine it memory way

Healthy breakfast

This reminded me of Barth and the rhetoric of the image it's ideal for an undergraduate media studies essay. But it really made me think obout how ideas become a lens which we see the world through - like photographers who start to see the whole world through a viewfinder and Kate P who sees the whole world through Narratives I've started to see the world in terms of English breakfast. Reading about Spinoza in my Idiots guide to begginers philosphy for Dummies I think he would have suggested that English breakfasts have souls - perhaps this picture represents Body Breakfast duality.