a last minute tattoo for sally – one of my oldest & dearest friends, & our house-mate
for the last while. drawn by d. & i, & tattooed pretty much within the same day,
photographed over breakfast at pope joan just before her flight to a new job & home
in central australia. very teary.
xxm.
these are some of my favourite books from the last year — – not all published in 2011,
but more like the consistent pile that’s been by my bed and in my travel bags for the
past year. things that i’ve read and re-read and bookmarked for the last 12 months,
lent out and thought a lot about.
.
from top ; 1. the situation – ari marcopoulos / 2. ragtime – e.l. doctorow / 3. firework
studies – pierre le hors / 4. mono kultur # 28 – bless / 5. mono kultur # 27 – ryan
mcginley / 6. mono kultur # 22 – ai wei wei / 7. critical cities vol. 2 / 8. tracey emin -
my life in a column / 9. compendium of me – beci orpin / 10. folk archive – jeremy
deller & alan kane / 12. c.a.p – crew against people / 13. contraband – taryn simon /
14. utopian slumps – the collingwood years / 15. dansk tatovering – jon nordstrom /
16. the alphabet of spiritual emptiness – zdenek tmej / 17. hong kong’s informal
rooftop communities – rufina wu & stefan canham / 18. picture book – hannah hoch/
19. yoshitomo nara – ceramic works.
let me know if i missed anything,
xxm.
this year, given my mysterious deadlines, was maybe the first year ever that i didn’t
mind so much the new year. instead, i spent 9 hours in {nice!} meetings, and half
an hour later d. and i took the very last bus to a friend’s place in the country, the
midnight station arrival.
i can’t think of anything nicer we could have done for my two days off, before
returning to make deadlines all over again in the stuffy studio heat. we read and
drew in the paddock, drew out pretty much the whole next year’s shows & projects,
swam in the ocean with the best dog in the world, flew kites and invented about a
billion amazing drinks.
xm.
sometimes, the nicest thing about the start of the year, isn’t so much the holiday
time, as the time to spend lots of late nights in the studio working without many
e-mails or phone calls or meetings to answer.
i wonder if you might guess what i’m working on this week? xm.
