Mike Nelson

" Artists, like conspiracy theorists, need to make connections, however implausible. They need to deal with mental space as well as physical objects, history as well as the present."

Triple Bluff Canyon and Coral Reef- both parallel worlds, the uncomfortable feeling of isolation, as if whoever abandoned this specific space is about to come back and catch you off guard. The contrast between the space; vast emptiness and the seedy claustrophobia.

http://www.mattsgallery.org/artists/nelson/exhibition-3.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2004/may/11/1

Ivor Brown

I gots an Ivor Brown book, 'I Give You My Word' for £1 today in Leicester Square. Boom. It's beautiful and full of words like ambuscade, cargozoon, inveigle and potwalloper.

A lovely end to a lovely day wandering around the Tate on the last day of the 'Rude Britannia' exhibition. Altogether an ok show; i was particularly fond of an H.M Bateman print on show (The Lost Stamp) and the satirical drawings of the fashions of the day by Philip Dawe et al. By far the best thing was Mike Nelson's Coral Reef exhibition, a beautiful labyrinth of corridors and rooms with unmarked doors reminded me a bit of being in a ship and left me in a curious discovering mood...