Issue 49

Duncan Paré
Empty thumb


RT - the purpose of this
maybe dehydrated currently -
empty thumb maybe but with promise.
To show a trusty tomorrows harvest.
I could see that the sensor on your camera was better than mine
all the colours were more bright.
Am working out what Camilla wants.
She was ok with her choice
but she’d been pressing it home.
Apparently having a nice appearance brings people a pleasant and confident mood.
Its not that i have anything against that
so I’ll just be here collecting.
For you they lit the place.
This allows them to see -
I mean allowed.
You did it because you were already able to do it
so a good result really.
In this room, you can find specialists experiencing the same toward their job.
So thumb possibly empty?
Place to be filled for the next showing’s results
for material to be stored underneath.
Stirred underneath.
Don’t put anything up for now.
Possibly dehydrated?
Or possibly pressed-in instead?
I had been to ask for a pay rise.
Pay rise was out of the question.
That was pressing / pushing back from the outside
only performance needed - ok -
towards tomorrows harvest - Julian


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From top to bottom:

Empty thumb, photocopy, 21 x 30, 2023 RT thumb, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm, 2022
RT thumb, acrylic on canvas 70 x 90, 2023
RT thumb, photocopy, 21 x 30, 2023
RT thumb, photocopy, 30 x 42, 2023
Camilla press, photo collage, 21 x 30, 2023 Performance (Harvest), acrylic on paper and laser copy, 42 x 60, 2023
Performance (Harvest), acrylic on paper and laser copy, 42 x 60, 2023

The text was written during 2023
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