If, as an artist, you are concerned about the extent to which your work will be remembered by posterity, it is worth reflecting on one thing. The staterooms of The Titanic were adorned with many lovely items. Whether or not your art survives beyond your lifetime is going to be, in large measure, a matter … Read more
The past couple of days have been spent, in part, doing a favour for a friend, and reading the draft of a part of a book he is writing. Alan Carling is a former colleague from my university teaching days, and although he has retired from teaching he has remained with his discipline and is … Read more
In yesterday’s post I shared a few thoughts about the possible future of my art (and by implication that of any artist.) The idea I’m coming round to is that whoever we are in the art world we have little if any control over what people make of our work, and hence over its future. … Read more
Two similar tasks on which I’ve been engaged over the past couple of weeks have prompted similar thoughts–although perhaps for different reasons. The first involved reviewing, sorting and largely shredding an enormous collection of personal correspondence dating back to the early 1980s. The second (completed today) involved sorting out all of my old academic publications, … Read more