h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wouldn't see it as Art, either my bookshelf, or the Exhibition. My bookshelf's just a bookshelf, though it did take about 18 months or so to pull together. I'll put photographs onto Picassa.

What really intrigues me is that at h2g2 we are about the online word, but all of us were raised wih and grew to love the printed word. The whole exhibition could be Art in that sense IF it explores that tension but I agree, not the individual entries.

Do you have photographs of your kitchen table? It sounds Amazing. And creative. And actually quite playful. I love that sort of pragmatic but material-sensitive recycling.

PS I really liked the photos of your garden and the cats, they are both lovely.

I can't think clearly about much at present.

But h2g2 book storage show would be fun...if that could happen here sometime. I'd love to curate it when hopefully I get back to my old self.

Here's the table. Sorry for poor quality of photos. In the background are slabs of white concrete I made that fit together to make a track. The pattern is of tire tracks..made of these wonderful coloured flints I spent months digging up from my garden.

The British Geological Survey told me they were created 50million years ago..as fossils of sponges..though they are just blurry shapes in the flint..though I found a few which were encrusted with iron pyrites crystals.

But that's the back ground thing. I'll stop waffling. Here's some poor photos of the table.

http://bit.ly/p1pokp

But they do give the idea. Did the tyres have the wheels - where they fairly solid or rather springy? I did something similar for a garden shelf once, not sure what happened to it. But much edgier indoors.

And the background looks fresh and cool and almost medidterranean. I do like your aesthetic sense.

Ben

Yes they are wheels not tires.

The background is a mass of slabs to be laid out flat..looking fresh and mediterranean has zero to do with the idea.

That sounds about as an insulting a description of that piece of ART as I could imagine.

I know you didn't intend that..but it utterly demeans the months of planning, hard work and conceptualisation of that piece called 'Outback' double meaning. back garden stones dug up and the primitive nature of the outback.

Anyway I'm not in the mood to talk about it anymore.

The book storage show is what I'd like to do here when and if I get better.

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

(there's a Melissa Etheridge song there somewhere if only I could remember it)

But it'd have to wait until there's some proper light in the library...

I no longer have any interest in this. I'm treated like a total child when I signed up for NoMoJoMo.

I posted something vaguely humorous..nothing nasty or needing to be censored. It was tempoarily hidden until someone could make a decision.

As A Goldsmiths Fine Art Grad..treated like this..like a three year old..I'm not interested in curating anything for this place.

I'll see how it goes later..could be days, weeks or months..(probably not years ), to make a final decision about this.

Of course anyone is welcome to take it out of my hands to make a book storage show.

And I'll deal with that if and when it arises..in a sensible way I hope.

I posted my dissertation today, which means I have time for a lot of things I've had to put off; I'll dig out the photographs of my bookshelf on Friday and put them up online somewhere I can link to.

B

YOU POSTED YOUR DISSERTATION!!! Absolutely brilliant.



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I look forward to seeing the bookshelf pics.

I really would like to do this thing. But I'm all over the place at present as you have probably noticed...and I truly don't know how that will go. But the unknown and unknowable is always excellent for creativity.

I don't want to rush.

If I can stay part of this place..and begin to feel able to really fit in (yes it will take a while Mrs Zen..because it'll be emotional..no I can't explain)..I'd like to start organising exhibitions *not competitions*

But it won't happen overnight..it'll grow out of what this community grows as.

(But yes we can always a few quickies in between times).

Because I feel so bitter about being excluded from discussions on Ask...and have to suffer the immense frustration of that..I defo want to change my role in future.

I want to use my talents to do with creativity here.

It is clearer and clearer to me where the petty bureacracy types are. I will have no hope on new h2g2 if I have to be subject to their mentality and power over me..as I don't have that talent.

The more angry I'm feeling..now the more I'm deciding to stay.

I post here to you Mrs Zen.because I do still have real *respect* for you, unlike others here.

Do you know, I think anyone would be better out of those converstations on Ask. I've got a lot of backlog to read and I am not looking forward to it.

Have you seen anything about this year's Turner shortlist? I've not even read anything about them yet, but they are being exhibited in Gateshead so we are planning on going. I wondered if you had opinions, or even Opinions on them. I'm really looking forward to going, though I've not got a date yet.

B

I haven't followed the whole Turner Prize thing for a couple of years. Thanks for drawing my attention though because for about 10 years I was an avid follower, and always went to Tate Britain to see the short listed artists' shows.

I looked it up and was delighted to see that they are showing 'up t'north' at the Baltic, not London.

But still there are great massive crowds wanting to get in and look at the stuff..Jesus that makes you proud we live in acountry where people want to do that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/oct/27/baltic-tate-gateshead-cobra-george-shaw-karla-black-martin-boyce-hilary-lloyd?newsfeed=true