last night’s
poetry prom at Snape with John Hegley and Ian
McMillan was a nice evening of light entertainment – sounds like
a negative but nice is ok. It was all
very cosy and maybe asking for a little grit would be calling for the wrong
thing in the wrong place but I can’t help thinking that with 800 people in the
audience for poetry you couldn’t have introduced them to more voices – Byron Vincent
http://www.byronvincent.com/ is the lost child of Hegley and Richard Dedomenici http://dedomenici.com/ would connect with McMillan’s
acquired/stolen signage. Now that would be an interesting evening.
Anyway – I’ve started to look through
the folded paper archives in my studio with a view to starting work on Squeeze Fold Bend and Expand -
Structural Memory in Deformable Objects along with some light reading about rat
skeletons.
meanwhile on the watching front the beautifully
shot, colour saturated Utopia – the first series, although fractured with no explanation
of anything story wise was quite startling with utterly arresting imagery. The original
version of House of Cards is fascinating – cluttered with class war and leaden
80s-ness!
