Simon Taylor
series natural, temporal, gastronomic, cosmetic
a fairytale prelude, warm asphalt, small clouds like turds, other snaps
“Why does everything have to be a contest with you?” “Why does everything have to be a victory with you?”
pilgrimage to Barry Brickell’s Driving Creek Potteries & Railway, Coromandel Peninsula – Barry is pictured nude, a beer bottle in one hand, or a wine bottle, depending on the time of day, a hammer in the other hand, and a spade, and in the other a kumara-
to placard: letter on arts funding crisis, to demolish an idea
[-The following went to Spectre -]
State arts funding does not have the interests of the artist or of art at its centre as its reason. It is rather a symbolic – political and economic and ethological – allowance that such things might emerge as artists and arts which if they do