Dating for mature people is the link

Dating for mature people is the link you get if you’re over a certain age and your algorithm decides that you are still in the game. I got online and then got slapped in the face by a few sites that decided I was 1.) single, and 2.) old enough, and lonely enough to meet other old and lonely strangers. 

Neither are true but what the hell, I kept looking at the aging people smiling back at me from my phone screen with the self-confidence of predators who had gone out and actually found what they were looking for, and in their neighbourhood. 

It’s primate behaviour of course. My new works feature a lot of goldfish, and Koi, and I did have a curiosity about whether these fish have any form of courtship, and I was surprised to find out that, “Goldfish and Koi do not have a traditional, gentle courtship. Instead, they engage in an intense, frantic group-spawning chasing frenzy, triggered by rising water temperatures in spring and summer.” 

That doesn’t seem to cover love rituals in a fishbowl. But, hey, a glass prison is not exactly a place to go looking for love. 

The result was sad: “Yes, two goldfish can technically procreate in a bowl if they are a mature male and female, but it is extremely unlikely and dangerous for the fish.”

The magnificence of art lies in its suggestion of the human condition, through the pretence of other narratives. Paintings are not merely pictures, they are portals to a parallel universe.