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Waiting for a call back from this company 

Paul Thek, Meat pyramin

Paul Thek, Untitled (Meat Piece with Flies), 1965 (Damien Hirst stole from Paul Thek)

The legendary Paul Thek ‘Hippopotamus Poison belongs to the series Technological Reliquaries, which Thek began in New York after a summer spent in Sicily. The work engages the Roman Catholic tradition of venerating saintly bodies that Thek had observed firsthand in the catacombs near Palermo and simultaneously offers a critique of the art of the time, Pop and Minimalism in particular. Within a visually seductive display case made from colored plexiglass sits what appears to be a slab of rotten meat, realistically rendered in wax. Inscribed on the vitrine is a paranoid quote that nods to a generation's underlying fears. "The world was falling apart, anyone could see it," Thek has explained. "I was a wreck, the block was a wreck, the city was a wreck; and I’d go to a gallery and there would be a lot of fancy people looking at a lot of stuff that didn’t say anything about anything to anyone."moma

Steve Bishop makes my work

‘Anti-Fatigue Mats are ideal for people who are required to stand for a long period of time, especially on hard surfaces. This can cause major health issues, such as lower back problems, muscle fatigue, joint pains and many other issues. Not only does this affect the wellbeing of workers, but this leads to poor work productivity and absenteeism.‘

Candice Lin Pigs and Poison. See trailer for show on eflux

Meanwhile at the Slade MFA show Haruka Ono created a miniature world from an entirely different medium, frozen food.  Summer Holiday Dreams is a three-dimensional tropical landscape made up of battered fish and chicken nuggets whilst green beans form greenery protruding from the ground or hanging as palm leaves from trees.  This is a curious dialectic work, depicting a tropical place in frozen food, which is contained in a modified commercial chest freezer with a glass top.  Miniature toad in the holes form small boats floating on a sea of blue ice cream (pistachio perhaps) as a wave breaks towards them in cream or vanilla ice cream.  It seems this work critiques the food it uses as a medium perhaps for its healthiness but more so for its environmental impact, using electricity likely generated by burning fossil fuels to preserve it, and its absent packaging clogging landfill, whilst the freezer, likely reclaimed from scrap, contains CFC gases.  This work also shows the childlike playfulness of Fischli and Weiss’ The Sausage Photographs (1979), reflecting art and creativity as skills we are born with, but which most repress as they grow older.

Fischli and Weiss

https://www.behance.net/gallery/72384553/Comfort-Town

Can we watch John Carpenter’s The Fog together? Fog (air) as subject of horror

Note, Carroll’s don’t sell raw meat, just cooked..... 

Found a way of tracing the sewage route from my house to a water treatment plant across the river. Use of Irish Water logo is rudimentary but I was interested in how it would literally be taken out of the water at the final stage of treatment.

‘PREMIUM IRISH’ and how do you eat that sandwich

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