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Welcome to my ant story. In my ant farm there’s a tunnel from my heart to my art gallery. I dug it eating sand. Seriously, I keep wondering whether Francis Bacon would have been so messy if he knew...

Remember you are special enough

Have a near death experience. Remember you are special enough. I got gastric flu, and it traveled through me like it was going through a bile duct from hell. Puddles of sweat, on a stale bed, are a...

A early day

A day early. Don’t worry be snappy: embrace your chains. Otherwise just carry on streaming from your couch, and make sure the stars don’t fade.I hate the rollout of online advertising, accompanied ...

Rustle in the trees

Colour is a drug. Stop taking it and you can’t function. Take too much and you overdose, or you vomit out the toxic excess. No wonder some addicts just paint in primary colours without battlin...

Night riders are knights

In a way, I prefer night to day. In the beginning I embraced the 24-hour gym experience, and found myself exercising at 3am on weekdays. Trouble came when I tanked at 3pm, and began to sleep every ...

Dirty money don't touch

Compassion arises when the diamond of the mind rests in the flower of the heart. This beautiful Buddhist saying is obviously about the way we have to reconcile our two parts. The thinking head and...

Diamonds aren't forever

Your eyes don’t see what’s there. Your eyes only see what they want to see. That’s the great thing about highly subjective images: they talk so many different languages. It’s something corporate co...

World of worms

I’m not saying the art world is a worm farm. But perhaps I am. Perhaps it does live off its own waste. I don’t have a problem with that. A wormhole, however, is something vastly different. It can b...

Moving on them

Otherwise please exhaust me with your unfinished business. Generally that’s what the act of living amounts to: unfinished business. And that’s how we like it. Primarily because the opposite means ...

Pass the Peas

Remember when the word roast didn’t mean comedians saying terrible things about each other? I spent so much time over the holidays thinking about the good old days, I forgot about the here and now....

Bad machines wrong moves

I’ve started to talk to my laptop. I forgot I wasn’t on a zoom call. I said something like, ‘why did you do that?’ As though I was scolding a dog. And then I said, ‘ok I’m sorry.’ I apologised to...

Comfortably Numb

We are all just mammals and vertebrates. We didn’t exactly evolve from angels, we just happen to be their poor relations, or physical manifestations. So we are a special case. That’s you and me liv...

Goodbye Me You

Saying goodbye is as natural as going to the toilet. Like a tadpole whose body eventually sucks in its own tail, we absorb our loss and make the most of it. We are after all made of pure protein. I...

Sleep Escape

Hit the snooze button and wake up next year. Right now, that’s how everyone wants it. The saying ‘get out of town’ is one of total disbelief. It’s strange that hitting the snooze button, and gettin...

Vape Sh*t

You have to respect vape smokers. They are some of the most selfless people on earth. Let’s face it, they gave up perfectly satisfying smoking habits for something dodgy, something that’s more like...