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October 04, 2004
olympia!!
Five days later, give or take a day for time travel, and I'm back.
Five days spent standing on some hardwearing carpet tiles in Olympia's main hall [beautiful ceiling by the way, they knew how to rivet steel in those days] watching people walk past my work.
Here’s what you do at an art fair:
Sit for a bit, until the people start to filter through.
Stand up, move away from your work and look mildly interested in the world.
Walk about a bit.
Stand in a different place and look with interest at the edge of another stand.
Walk a bit further, casually.
Stand around.
Sit down and write in a notebook, looking intelligent and purposeful.
Hide notebook as contents is neither intelligent nor purposeful.
Stand up, smile, and dash for a coffee
Walk back slowly to find the portfolios have been rifled through in your [brief] absence – were they waiting for you to go?
Sit down, with your back to your work
Pick up a magazine and look interested
Fall asleep
Wake up to a large man talking at you, making no sense whatsoever
“dyoodo tread?”
- sorry?
“dyoodo tread?”
- er… what did you say?
“dyoodo tread?”
[look pal, I didn’t get it the first two times how d’you expect..] - do you want to buy a picture?
“Yes, dyoodo tread?”
- ah! Trade, yes, this is trade...
Stand around.
Walk about a bit.
Stand and contemplate the lot of the soldier on guard duty.
Stand and look at the lady in the pink stilettos and wonder what other form of masochism she’s into.
Stand and count the rivets in the nearest girder.
Sit.
Stand.
Hover.
[takes practice but it certainly takes the weight off your feet]
Posted by john at October 4, 2004 02:42 PM
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