Found and remembered

If you "never" throw away your experiments and samples and suchlike, they re-surface years later - and you might not be able to remember when or why or how you made them! These are done with biro and were probably made while having an enforced stay in Brussels when Eurostar trains broke down in the tunnel - that was December 2009. They are done on what looks like hotel stationery of some sort, and a biro would have been just the thing after seeing work by Jan Fabre there - a ceiling encrusted with beetle wings. I remember pointing it out to Tony and telling him about the exhibition of his work in the Louvre, which included large, buckled drawings solid with ballpoint pen marks that had made a lasting impression on me: simple, subtle, intense, laborious.

Some of these textures now strike me as "interesting" for putting into or onto, which is it, the porcelain pots...

Also found, remnants of a work-in-progress called "Speech Marks" - snippets developed from marks made to "record" overheard conversations on mobile phones. Often the record showed my annoyance at the loud voice, the self-absorption of monopolising the conversation, the triviality; all sorts of grumpiness that of course we can rise above now....

These are somewhat similar, but it was working towards a project, or series, about counting -