#165: Brain Fog

Cartoon.

Someone sat working at a desk.  A cloud of fog obscures their head, shoulders and much of the upper part of the picture.

#164: Titles to interpret, or change, an artwork

Choose a work of art and give it a title to interpret it, or to change it into something new.

For example:

The Commuter’s House for Man with a Newspaper by René Magritte. 

Or one of these:

The Disappearance

Liberation Outside* 

Queer Freedom Beyond*

Bad News 

Good News

The Abduction

The war

Coloniser

Staged conformity* 

Queer resonance* 

Another locked room case

Suburban Nightmare

* With thanks to Leon Williams and Tate for the inspiration for the whole idea, and these particular titles.

#163: The information that you need

A gallery full of posters, leaflets, booklets etc that give all the information that the town, region and/or country the gallery is in is lacking.  

#162: Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world

Poster.

Scenes of a teenage vampire engaged in various acts, partaking the fruits of knowledge, so to speak.  In one they are reading in their bedroom, surrounded by books; in another they are browsing library shelves; here the cinema, there listening to music, or dancing, or in an art gallery and so on.  Arranged around the pictures are these words:

“Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts –  be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you… who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential… A little smart vampire full of raging love, amazed by the world – that will be you, my young friend.” - Nick Cave

#161: I have nothing

Drawing of two hands held out, palms up and empty.

#160: Historical Art I and II

 I

Think about an artwork that no longer exists.  

It does now?

II

Think about an artwork that you have seen in the past.

Comment with pictures, if you like.

#159: Favourite Wall

Place a frame on your favourite wall and preserve it.  Whether it is a favourite colour or wallpaper pattern, bricks or tiles, mark it out and make it special.