Comments on: Panoramas : the difference between DNA and a love letter

By: doug

doug — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:51:06 +0000

Hey Gumbo - thanks for visiting - do you remember the Regional Seat of Government being built on Wanstead FLats ? I also remember something fortified being built in the sewage farm by Wanstead Park. Not sure how to research this stuff though.

By: Gum

Gum — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:20:59 +0000

Nice one Dougie, you intellectual old bugger.

If there is a big sky you can see people coming from a long way off. Its a different kind of safety

Mind you you can see your enemies coming on Wanstead Flats.
Unless they wriggle on their tummies.

Great website.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:31:51 +0000

Thanks for checking the site - yes lets talk soon, I’ve started some new work which is going sortof ok .. watch this space. Talk soon my dear friend

By: Patricia Price

Patricia Price — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:55:51 +0000

Just replying to this to see how it works. The site looks great and I’d love a chat.

Patricia

By: doug

doug — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:39:02 +0000

I really do agree about verbal nonsense about visual art. There is far too much of it.

By: Graham Portlock

Graham Portlock — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:34:07 +0000

Whilst I find this an interesting analysis and basically agree with the sentiments expressed, I am always unsettled when an image is intellectualised - in my opinion ‘artspeak’ belongs on public funding application forms only….

I want an image to haunt me and to persistently draw my attention so that I develop my own emotional responses over a period of time. I need it to be so enigmatic/ambiguous/mysterious or simply stunningly strong or beautiful, that no words are needed - otherwise I’d buy a book!!

I liked your Orford Ness - although, due to its relatively small scale, I did find it difficult not to be distracted within the gallery space - it would be great if you had the luxury of being able to display it alone in the centre of an empty dark room……