Next victim please or how to be a human being

Next victim please or how to be a human being

Saturday 12th February 2011
CCA, 2pm-4pm

SCREENING OF HARUN FAROCKI'S

The Interview / Die Bewerbung
(1997, 58min, subtitles: English)

Harun Farocki's The Interview fixes a wry, critical gaze on interview training courses for the unemployed. The objective is to teach them how to put 'the soul at work' (Berardi). Farocki's typically lucid film gains a crucial insight into the involuted processes through which potential employees make themselves 'labour-ready', examining how interview training scenarios teach people how to 'correctly' think and feel, and how the subject is disciplined for the realm of work.

"In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been retained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level managers - all of them are supposed to learn how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term 'self management' is applied. The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to hand a social identity. It was Kafka who likened being accepted to a job to entering the Kingdom of Heaven; the paths leading to both are completely uncertain. Today one speaks of getting a job with the greatest obsequiousness, but without any grand expectations." Harun Farocki   http://www.farocki-film.de/

GROUP DISCUSSION WITH STRICKLAND DISTRIBUTION

The Strickland Distribution will screen Farocki's The Interview and facilitate a discussion of the film afterwards in relation to labour and welfare. The search for a new social subject in the neo-liberal age has led to a series of new terms to designate labour: 'affective', 'immaterial', 'precarious', 'cognitive', 'non-productive', 'creative', 'playbour', 'the knowledge economy'. In the context of a low-wage economy and the most severe welfare cuts since the post-war consensus, The Strickland Distribution want to open up these categories to critical discussion through a close reading of The Interview.

http://www.strickdistro.org/

The Strickland Distribution is an artist-run group supporting the development of innovative and independent research in art-related and non-institutional practices. Art-related includes research forms that directly implement artistic practice as a means of research method. Non-institutional includes forms of grass-roots histories, social enquiries and projects developed outside of academic frameworks and by groups and individuals normally excluded from such environments. The research will be developed through commissioning of new projects, dissemination in publications, exhibitions and events, networking to build links between groups and practitioners internationally, and evaluation through public discussion and peer review. The Strickland Distribution will operate in the public sphere and seek to stimulate and contribute to public education, discourse and debate around the topics and themes addressed through its projects.

free but ticketed, available from CCA Box Office : 0141 352 4900

Comparison via a Third / Harun Farocki
Wednesday 16 February - Thursday 3 March 2011
11:00am - 6:00pm: FREE
Venue: CCA 1 / CCA 2 / CCA 3
Ages: all

More info:
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/assets/uploads/doc/handoutouter11(2).pdf

Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
http://www.cca-glasgow.com 

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RESOURCES:

Eliminating Labour: Aesthetic Economy in Harun Farocki - Benedict Seymour, MetaMute
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/eliminating_labour_aesthetic_economy_in_harun_farocki

'The Flexible Personality', Brian Holmes, 2002.
http://eipcp.net/transversal/1106/holmes/en

The Precarious Reader, Mute magazine, Vol 2, 2005.
http://www.metamute.org/en/Precarious-Reader

Proposal for an inquiry in Call Centers - Kolinko
http://libcom.org/library/proposal-inquiry-call-centers-kolinko
hotlines - call centre | inquiry | communism
http://libcom.org/library/hotlines-call-centre-inquiry-communism

Beyond Aspiration: Young People and decent work in the de-industrialised city
Discussion paper, June 2009, Andrew Cumbers, Gesa Helms and Marilyn Keenan
http://www.variant.org.uk/events/Doc7Poverty/BeyondAspiration.pdf

To Banker, from Bankies
Incapacity Benefit: Myth and Realities
Chik Collins, with Janice Dickson & Mary Collins (Clydebank Independent Resource Centre)
http://www.variant.org.uk/events/Doc7Poverty/BankerBankies.pdf

art + labour: a public conversation. 9 November 2010

tomorrow in glasgow, cca5, is this:

just before, there is another workshop on artist loans and internships in the morning (from 10.30am onwards). please see the variant site for details.

the memories of

... strawberries; are mine as they ripple across the past few summers. so jammy to find them in my inbox, the subway and elsewhere across the city. they expanded outwards (as they usually do) to others and elsewheres; all the same so closely tied to this city.

these are someone else's memories that now extend to mine of strawberries.

The most vivid memory snapshot of him I possess comes from long before then: one Saturday night in Glasgow in the 70s, after the pubs had closed, I boarded a bus heading out west. The upper deck, as always, was a genial riot of drinking songs, Frank Sinatra tunes, Danny Boy and the rest. In the middle of it all, hands clasped on his lap, sat a silently smiling Edwin Morgan. (James Campbell, The Guardian, 20 August 2010)

Edwin George Morgan, poet, born 27 April 1920; died 19 August 2010.

Amongst these words, some of his own. How could it not be the Loch Ness Monster song.

wordless summer madness

OMG. There is life in the astroturf. Quick.

Cowcaddens. 23.22pm. Where are the solar panels.

Three in one...

... after the previous post ended up speechless, let me try again.

I am clearing my office.

30kgs of photocopied articles no longer needed.
The way of walking and
Love and loss

 

 

Then I went and had my first drink with J, five and a half years overdue as I am leaving. We share the same job title as of soon: he in retirement, me with a beating heart. All the while, the city was dark, it rained on us as we sat covered, shared some tobacco and the ever urgent need for a word that starts with r... the second time today, this came up. Leaving: so many possibilities...

Yes: the scent of the city still gets me. Definitely itchy - my previous threesome was a lie :)

This is an "art exhibition"

Tuesday and Wednesday, Libby, Michelle and I had been hanging out in the coffee area of our department to wait for people to drop by with some objects for the Home is... project.

So, over a number of hours, we sat around, organised, discussed and curated an emerging exhibition. We talked about the use of this weird space that is the communal space in our department, we talked about our contributions and what other people brought, we talked about what we may do with this in the Viewing event next Tuesday.

We also arranged the room differently, turned the table around, moved the chairs around, left a sheet of paper with Names, Titles and media to be added.

When we came back, the 'catalogue' had disappeared, the chairs where back in line and of course, the cleaners had done their work as usual.

So, we rearranged, wrote a note, asking for contributions from the cleaners and asked not to move the furniture.

The note was titled:

This is an "art exhibition"

While for Michelle and myself, it's an art exhibition, Libby insists on an "art exhibition". How intriguing: surveying, measuring and filling the space between research and art. And how the three of us fill it very differently:

• Proposing to hang the pieces either with Bluetak, on board/behind glass or by spirit level and measure tape.
• Inviting people to give titles to their objects or not.
• Wanting to record responses in a variety of ways.

What we do is familiar to all of us, for Libby and myself as part of explorative research methods, for Michelle and I as part of an art exhibition.

I am so curious what our colleagues are making of this - but going by the contributions and various emails en lieu of object contributions, next week's event is looking very promising. Both as "art exhibition" and art exhibition.

Repeat with working links

Now... for the Variant event as part of the Document 7 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, here's another announcement. This time with a working link to the PDF:

Poverty Advocacy & Action

Document 7 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Friday 23 October 2009 - CCA (Glasgow) 7pm

presentations & discussion : Chik Collins, Gesa Helms, Peter Kelly (chair)

Chik Collins, University of the West of Scotland, and Clydebank Independent Resource Centre will talk about his recent research, 'To Bankers from Bankies - Incapacity Benefit: Myth and Reality':

"The report offers a view on 'welfare reform' from the perspective of the Clydebank Independent Resource Centre (CIRC). It has a particular focus on the most recent changes to benefits and on the 2009 Welfare Reform Bill. These constitute a major departure from the principles of social protection which have been in place since World War II. The report is addressed to the former banker, David Freud, whose 2007 report inspired the reforms, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to the politicians who appointed him as their adviser. The first part of the report introduces both 'the banker' (Freud) and 'the bankies' (the CIRC). It then outlines the CIRC's perspective on 'welfare reform' as it has developed since 1997. The second part focuses on the experience of Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants in Clydebank in recent years, presenting three case studies which challenge the stereotypes and the rationale presented by the proponents of the current reforms."

Gesa Helms, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow will talk about, 'Beyond Aspiration: Young People and decent work in the de-industrialised city, Discussion paper', June 2009:

"This discussion paper is designed to provoke a debate about the work and training prospects for young people in Glasgow. It draws upon recent statistical evidence alongside qualitative data from interviews and focus groups. It highlight the increasing difficulties that young people experience in finding decent training and job opportunities in the city’s labour market. ... Finally, we offer up some thoughts on what alternative questions should be posed in offering people real choices and opportunities for decent employment. A cornerstone of any alternative must be to recognise individual rights to participate in economic life on equal terms. More practically, young people need to be paid ‘living wages’ in return for any kind of paid work and given properly regulated training and work placements."

There will be a discussion afterwards chaired by Peter Kelly, Director of the Poverty Alliance, Glasgow.

"The Poverty Alliance : Our vision is of a sustainable Scotland based on social and economic justice, with dignity for all, where poverty and inequalities are not tolerated and are challenged."

http://www.povertyalliance.org

For further details of the event & copies of the speakers' research papers, please see: http://www.variant.org.uk/events.html

This event is part of Document 7 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and will be preceded by a screening of the film 'Drumchapel - The Frustration Game': a damning indictment of local authority enterprise schemes which are contrived to look as if they are there to help the disenfranchised but in fact serve the purpose of greater social control. Made by De-Classed Elements in the late 1980s, a video group who were based in Drumchapel, Glasgow, it is as relevant today as it was then.

Document 7 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

CCA & GFT, Glasgow, 21st - 25th Oct 09

Document 7 will screen over 60 outstanding national and international documentaries that look at human rights in its broadest sense, as personal stories with a global punch. Audiences can expect to find films that are both accessible and thought provoking, engaging and challenging, then debate them with invited speakers.

Full programme: http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Document 7: International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Document : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
CCA & GFT, Glasgow, 21st - 25th Oct 09

+++ Document 7 Programme Announced ++++

Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is proud to announce a dynamic programme of events and screenings for Document 7 - CCA & GFT, Glasgow, 21st - 25th Oct 09.

Document is the UK's only dedicated human rights documentary festival, one of just 18 worldwide. This year, with a record number of submissions and a programme of premieres and award-winning documentaries, Document affirms its reputation as one of the most unique and anticipated events on the Scottish calendar.

Document 7 will screen over 60 outstanding national and international documentaries that look at human rights in its broadest sense, as personal stories with a global punch. Audiences can expect to find films that are both accessible and thought provoking, engaging and challenging, then debate them with invited speakers.

Document 7 will show films which cover ground often ignored or overlooked by the mainstream media - films that show how real people are affected by the great events of our age on their own turf, and how they deal with that - films in which people refuse to be defined simply as victims of circumstance.

Document 7 Highlights this year include the festival's opening film - 'Umoja: The Village Where Men Are Forbidden', tells the story of a group of women who form their own community in rural Northern Kenya. Sexually abused by British soldiers, and rejected by their husbands, they founded Umoja in 1990 - a thriving village where children of both sexes are treated equally, and from where the women go to neighbouring villages to raise awareness of gender equality, HIV/AIDS and circumcision issues; their only problem now is that they must defend themselves against the men, who envy their success in making a new life on their own terms. French Directors Jean-Marc Sainclair and Jean Crousillal will be at the screening to introduce the film and lead a Q & A afterwards, and will be available for interview.

'Goodbye, How Are You?' proves the lie that human rights film has to be solemn or worthy, as Boris Mitic' tongue-in-cheek road movie slowly builds up a picture of the former Jugoslavia, its people and its culture, through a "satirical-vérité narration" and over 400 unique "satirical documentary shots" filmed on a three-year, 50,000 km trip along Balkan side roads.

'China's Wild West' shows that beautiful images can also have a moral purpose in a cinematically striking film which follows a day in the life of a Muslim Uighur community in their hopeful efforts to discover Jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up river bed near a remote town on the old Silk Road in Western China.

'Durakovo: Village of Fools' examines a “utopian” community 100 km southwest of Moscow owned by Mikhail Morozov - Russian patriot, good Christian and successful businessman. People come there from all over Russia to learn how to become “true Russians” by abandoning all their former rights and obeying Morozov's strict rules. Purposefully restrained, yet cunningly subversive, 'Durakovo: Village Of Fools' provides a chilling glimpse of fascist ideology on the rise.

'Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen' is a groundbreaking work which helps illuminate the debate surrounding the role of race in transitional experience. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, African American filmmaker from California, film student of Spike Lee, will present a Glasgow School of Art Friday Event at the GFT on Friday 23rd October 11am and screen 'Still Black' at the GFT on Sunday 25th October 2pm-4pm. Zeigler will also available for interview.

To run in tandem with a series of discussions surrounding the current situation for UK asylum seekers, we will be screening a number of short films from the 'The Estate' series. Directed by Ruth Carslaw, these films uncover the lives of individuals living on the Sighthill council estate in Glasgow in the year leading up to its demolition. The seven selections included are specifically focused on the lives of refugees, which build into a compelling portrait of asylum in contemporary Scotland.

Document 7 will also host a programme of LGBT themed screenings and discussions to coincide with Glasgay. This will include a roundtable discussion with LGBT Youth Scotland & Our Story Scotland and the screening of 'Living Queer African' and 'Le(s)banese', an eye-opening documentary that reveals the truth about life for young Lesbians in the Lebanon. Intimate stories are interspersed with humorous anecdotes that reveal the tension between religion and identity in the Arab-speaking world, whilst also positioning Lebanon as a seat of liberal acceptance in the region.

Other strands include a full programme of films concerning women's experience with dedicated screenings and discussions, as well as a forum dedicated to Poverty, Advocacy & Action with Chik Collins, Clydebank Independent Resource Centre, (To Bankers from Bankies) and Gesa Helms (Beyond Aspiration: Young People and decent work in the de-industrialised city).

Exhibitions of work by photographers Martin Coyne and Martina Salvi will run concurrently in the CCA Bar, contrasting the lives of child workers in India with those of adults in the factories of contemporary China.

If that wasn't enough, at the end of the night surprise musical guests will entertain us in the café bar…

By providing a platform for a broad range of ideas, individuals, and discussions, Document 7 will sustain the principle of lively and open debate which has characterised the festival from the start. In an increasingly interconnected global milieu, Document remains a vital forum for information exchange, and for the celebration of shared human values across all contrived or imposed boundaries.


Programme:
The full programme is available at: http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk
Press Screening: 11.00am - 12.30am, Tues 6th Oct 09, CCA, Glasgow.
Press Enquiries: Paula Larkin, docfestinfo@gmail.com 07765 396226

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+++ Poverty Advocacy & Action +++
Friday 23 October 2009 - CCA 5 - 7pm
presentations & discussion : Chik Collins, Gesa Helms, Peter Kelly (chair)

Chik Collins, University of the West of Scotland, and Clydebank Independent Resource Centre will talk about his recent research, 'To Bankers from Bankies - Incapacity Benefit: Myth and Reality':
"The report offers a view on 'welfare reform' from the perspective of the Clydebank Independent Resource Centre (CIRC). It has a particular focus on the most recent changes to benefits and on the 2009 Welfare Reform Bill. These constitute a major departure from the principles of social protection which have been in place since World War II. The report is addressed to the former banker, David Freud, whose 2007 report inspired the reforms, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to the politicians who appointed him as their adviser. The first part of the report introduces both 'the banker' (Freud) and 'the bankies' (the CIRC). It then outlines the CIRC's perspective on 'welfare reform' as it has developed since 1997. The second part focuses on the experience of Incapacity Benefit (IB) claimants in Clydebank in recent years, presenting three case studies which challenge the stereotypes and the rationale presented by the proponents of the current reforms."

‘To Banker, From Bankies - Incapacity Benefit: Myth and Realities : Perspectives on welfare reform, from the Clydebank Independent Resource Centre’, Chik Collins, CIRC, funded by Oxfam GB, April 2009, can be downloaded at: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/ukpoverty/downloads/To banker from bankies.pdf

Gesa Helms, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow will talk about, 'Beyond Aspiration: Young People and decent work in the de-industrialised city, Discussion paper', June 2009:
"This discussion paper is designed to provoke a debate about the work and training prospects for young people in Glasgow. It draws upon recent statistical evidence alongside qualitative data from interviews and focus groups. It highlight the increasing difficulties that young people experience in finding decent training and job opportunities in the city’s labour market. ... Finally, we offer up some thoughts on what alternative questions should be posed in offering people real choices and opportunities for decent employment. A cornerstone of any alternative must be to recognise individual rights to participate in economic life on equal terms. More practically, young people need to be paid ‘living wages’ in return for any kind of paid work and given properly regulated training and work placements."

‘Beyond Aspiration: Young People and Decent Work in the De-industrialised City, Discussion Paper, June 2009’, A. Cumbers, G. Helms, M. Keenan, 2009, can be downloaded at: 
http://www.variant.org.uk/events/Doc7Poverty/BeyondAspiration.pdf


There will be a discussion afterwards chaired by Peter Kelly, Director of the Poverty Alliance, Glasgow.

For further details of the event, please visit the Variant site here

In colour: squares

Having arrived back home on Monday night, I quickly realised:

I could do a paired series to the White Room.

Simply not of someone else's flat somewhere but of mine now. No: it's not that I 'could' do this. There's little choice, I feel. I simply have to. The start:

In colour: square 1, 10x10cm, Soft pastel on board


In colour: square 2, 10x10cm, Soft pastel on board


In colour: square 3, 10x10cm, Soft pastel on board

Some strawberries for the leaving

...only the best ones... Edwin Morgan's. Fresh from an otherwise dingey subway station, they greeted me yesterday.

Summer lightning over the Kilpatrick Hills - am likely to miss those for this year, though I may be in luck tonight...


Some more of Edwin Morgan's wonderful poetry? About Glasgow? About love? About anything weird inbetween?

Try these:

• The Edwin Morgan Archive
• The Poetry Archive's page for Edwin Morgan

Oh - and in my bag now is a tiny book by another Scottish poet - The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown... I'm quite pleased with my prioritising - it 1/10 of my luggage allowance but part of a plan for Scottish landscape escapism...

Urban Water Exploration #1

I was a tourist here once.
I no longer am.

The city looks different whether you are or you are not.

Want to follow me on a bit of discovery?

Turn on the soundtrack and on we go.



Out of the subway, across the car park to the embankment.

The river glistens in the winter sun.



But the Kelvin is not my destination, not for today.





I walk past some new build development, a dingy underpass
I wonder if this was a railway tunnel or wartime shelter
Or maybe both.



Hm, this is more like it. A bit of watery calm.
Some reflections.

But not quite right.
I am looking for light trunk dark backgrounds.
Onwards,
Past the bridge to the little pond.

It is half frozen, just the tiniest bit of open water around the edges.
Where does the water change its state.








So many trees
So clearly reflected.

Ok... time for the coffee with M.
I back track, go to my favourite coffee place - offshore... how fitting
Order a coffee and [click repeat] hear this song.





Water, the city, reflections, trees... all in an hours walk.

Note to self: need to do this more often.

I've been saving this one....

... didn't know why. But I suppose it was for today:


In a recorded interview with Joan Eardley from the early 1960s she speaks of her love for the back streets of Glasgow and the children playing in the closes:

" I have been painting them for seven years...they don't pose - they come up and say 'will you paint me?'... I watch them moving about and do the best I can...the Samson's - they amuse me - they are full of what's gone on today - whose broken into what shop and whose flung a pie in whose face - it goes on and on. They just let out all their life and energy... and I just watch them and I do try and think about them in painterly terms...all the bits of red and bits of colour and they wear each other's clothes - never the same thing twice running...even that doesn't matter... they are Glasgow - the richness Glasgow has - I hope it will always have - a living thing, intense quality - you can't ever know what you are going to do but as long as Glasgow has this I'll always want to paint." (Joan Eardley, Exhibition Catalogue 2007, p. 31f)

In the close
Mixed media collage in Moleskine
13x36cm
[Lorraine's Moley]

So, I'm back...

Some music to go alongside the bit of Eardley?

Try these... they worked well yesterday to drown out the noise of the Motherwell supporters who got on the train in Edinburgh:







OMG... so many to choose from...

Help... she's painting people

... even worse: small people.

In the close, Detail
Mixed media in small Moleskine

But thanks to Joan Eardley, I'm confident that a bit of over the top colour scheme along with collage will help me out with my poor people drawing skills.

This is a small detail (as in 3x2cm) of my entry into Lorraine's Moleskine. Theme: close. And playing to stereotypes, I'm sticking with a literal, physical Glasgow tenement close. Well, which is in fact a lot closer in many ways that are not literal, but that's by the by.

There is another detail in the Moleskine Blog, but I think that will be all the early gossiping you'll get about this one, until it's in Vivien's safe hands to post the whole sketch.

I think it's finished. But just in case it isn't, I'll put it to the side for a few days. It's fairly complex for a small Moleskine, so I'm sure I'll find a couple of things to play with when I look at it again.

The little child in a pram is in fact a steal straight out of one of Eardley's paintings... do you know which one?

James Paterson's trees

James Paterson

Craigdarroch Water (Landscape with River), 1889

Oil on Canvas

One of the name that came in my art group yesterday was the Scottish painter James Paterson (1854-1932). Loosely associated with the Glasgow Boys, Paterson along with contemporaries such as James Guthrie and John Lavery, influenced Scottish art in the 1880s and 1890s and challenged the dominance of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Art (good old city rivalry in practice) - many of them to become later in their career established society painters.

In any case: Paterson painted primarily landscapes around the village of Moniaive in Dumfrieshire where he had moved to in the mid 1880s. His paintings in oil and watercolours were often done en plein air - in the spirit of the Glasgow School.

I think I found the painting Tom recommended to me yesterday, but it's a fairly poor reproduction. However, the painting is displayed at the Kelvingrove Gallery, so I will pop along to have a better look at it. Tom admired Paterson's ability to paint the trees very lightly, and transparent while giving them solidity nonetheless.

James Paterson
Craigdarroch: Looking down Glencairn, 1891
Oil on Canvas

Paterson was also a keen photographer - capturing many of his scenes on film. This publication in honour of his 150th birthday in 2004 provides some very good examples of how photography and painting complemented each other in his works.

Art sale debriefing

Earlier today I went back to the art sale to pick up the unsold paintings. I had known of two to have sold until Saturday lunch time. One was the one gone before we arrived at the preview, the other one was bought by my friend's mother for her. Marilyn had helped me take the paintings to the show on Thursday night and really liked the yellow one. The other two hadn't sold but I figured that was still pretty good to sell half of mine.

When we went on Friday night, we had a good look around - there were about 240 paintings, mostly acrylics, some oils and some watercolours. There were very few pastels. Most of the paintings were in small formats - maybe up to 40x50cm. As for subjects, about half were landscapes with the others equally divided between still life and portrait/figure drawing. Almost exclusively, the subjects were rendered in a representational to realist style. It was only two other artists whose landscapes were explicitly taken up abstract elements.

When my friend and I were there on Friday, she suggested to hang out around my paintings. The paintings weren't actually hung together but spread across the room - I am not quite sure if there was any reason behind the hanging, but felt it was a bit unfortunate that it wasn't one person's work to look at together. Yet, two of mine were closeish together in one corner. So, Hilda and I sat down there with our glasses of wine.

And indeed some of the people would talk about my paintings. We ended up talking to one woman who really liked one of them, and she and her friends had already found the other of my paintings and noticed that one was missing. She didn't like the title - textured wall seemed far to prosaic to her, I think. But it was her and her friend's interest in my paintings that really made my evening. That was such a nice kind of feedback to get - thank you so much!!! I gave her one of my cards, and I think she and her partner were back the next morning when my other friend was there too.


PS: as for the photos... there were people there, too ;) Just not on my photos...

Late night concepts...

Found this outside the pub on the way home from the art sale... a piece of Glasgow living room on the pavement.



And: I sold my first painting to a stranger!!!

It didn't even seem to have made the preview - we were looking for it throughout the exhibition and Textured Wall #2 seem to have gone walkies... I thought they maybe didn't like it, or it got broken before it got put up... but no: somebody had already walked off with it. How nice! Good night, and some more photos tomorrow...