Yesterday I strolled into town to see a Jeff Koons exhibition - well, exhibition was an inaccurate word, 5 - pieces hardly makes it that. And it wasn't worth the trip except I also managed to see a couple of Camden Town Group pictures too and that got me thinking about Roger Fry's seminal book (same period), Vision and Design, which I guess is very dated now. Though he does remind us that the fin de siècle signalled a scientific revolution that required a re-appraisal of aesthetic feeling and the spiritual existence of man (and woman - lest I offend) which is kind of ok by me. But in this scientific age the idea that ars est celare artem, trans., 'the art is to conceal the art', becomes harder to do - we just know so damn much don't we. I have a new picture to post, new things to say, new thoughts that are forming shapes in my head, but I just can't be bothered putting them down, here or anywhere else, may they live in the ellipses (for now)...
