Exhibitions / NOTHING (but flowers)

26.08.2011 to 17.09.2011

NOTHING (but flowers)

Westspace, Melbourne

26th August - 17th September 2011

Recent Fieldwork (with apologies)

Look. I guess all I really want to say is that I am really, really sorry.

If you have to look in here to see that then I will say it here too. I’m sorry.

I really am, for so many reasons in so many ways, to so many people and even things and places. Even times, they could have been done better… but particularly places. It feels like a place this feeling. Or this ‘sorry’ is of this place. Somehow it just feels like it deserves better. Somehow. I guess this all mixes into a broad regret, a cultural malaise. But pointy. Sharp. Dry.

I dunno.

I’m sorry I am not being clearer.

I’m sorry this is not full of aspiration and visionary revolution (or at least a decent advertising pitch). I guess if Matisse really did say that stuff about his painting being like a favourite comfy chair to collapse into at the end of a hard day then perhaps all I wanted to do is make the bunch of flowers on the side table.

Or the bouquet half glimpsed through the door on the hallstand.

I’m sorry. I know I can get carried away and try to reconstruct the whole flippin’ room or model a 1:1 scale diorama of the upholstery print on the damn settee but I really did only hope for a simple gift. A gesture. A posy even. Something from my world to yours. No grandiose postures. Don’t think I don’t know it’s about as effective a means of communication as the gifts your cat drags in from the night, still beating with feathers and blood to your bedroom pillow. What else can I do?

I wish I could paint those cherries or berries or whatever they are of Maguire’s. Four meters by two making up your whole fucking wall! God they’re great.

I’m going to stop now but I’m sorry about the bad ‘Fieldwork’ pun or metaphor or whatever it is. I aint no fuckin’ farmer and this ‘harvest’ feeds no one. To be fair it aint my metaphor but I guess I am perpetuating it, and knowingly too.

And for that I apologise.

I dunno. This is getting us nowhere……

I hope you like the flowers.