George Leigh Street

Pictures from George Leigh Street, Manchester. It's just around the corner from St. Peters Church, as well as an old pub building condemned for being built using asbestos.

http://www.ancoatsbpt.co.uk/projects_peters.htm

Wall Relief

A detail from a wall relief, loosely inspired by the work of Mary Martin. It also functions as a marble run...

Assembly of Doorstops

I've 'collected' quite a few doorstops from around the art-school building where my studio is. I apologise sincerely to anyone who's looking for them. I've been putting them together in various combinations...

I love the photographs that Ellsworth Kelly took as research for his work.

Information

This is a photocopied reassembly of one of the images in the final part of the catalogue for the Moma exhibition Information (1970). It's a view from a probe on mars, and an astonishing image. I wonder what kind of unmanned panoramic camera is needed to produce that sort of picture?

An extraordinary lampshade.

This lampshade is above the dining table in the summer house Selin, on the island of Ramsö, in Sweden. Not only does it have a mind boggling shape, but a curious colour as well.

Removing a section of paint from the wall.

This is during the filming of a stop-motion animation, in which white paint is removed from a wall.

A marble.

I like the way that a marble is a lens, a mirror, and a highly visible object in of itself.

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http://akronmarbles.com/

An aerial view of a carpet in my parents house.

This carpet is thick, and its wool feels almost like straw.


"You see, he told himself, I know how it is. The red parts of the carpet are red-hot lumps of coal. What I must do is this: I must walk all the way along to it to the front door without touching them. If I touch the red I will be burnt. As a matter of fact, I will be burnt up completely. And the black parts of the carpet . . . yes, the black parts are snakes, poisonous snakes, adders mostly, and cobras, thick like tree-trunks round the middle, and if I touch one of them, I'll be bitten and I'll die before tea time." The Wish, by Roald Dahl.

The precipice, the threshhold, De Rooij and De Rijke's Point of Departure:
http://www.secession.at/art/2005_williams-r-r_e.html