ghosts of stockings revisited

   

I've become interested in the idea of the 'paper museum' lately and will upload a series of images from The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg over the next week or so. Chiefly my interest lies in the idea of a museum that exists as it's own documentation: a record of items collected, drawn on paper. I'm not sure whether my idea of a paper museum is a well-coined concept, but I certainly need to look into it when timetables allow. In the meantime, enjoy some stocking and foot-related attire - and if you ever find a copy of The Paper Museum (it's in limited supply and expensive to buy) then do spend some time with its contents. Absoloutely lovely.

All images © The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg), the State Hermitage Museum & the State Russian Museum, University of Amsterdam.

top four in london

See these:

Pure Beauty - John Baldessari at Tate Modern
Authority to Remove - Jill Magid at Tate Modern
Ed Ruscha at the Hayward  
Passing Thoughts and Making Plans - Artists using photography as part of their process (including Rachel Whiteread, Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, Richard Wentworth & Sarah Jones) at the Jerwood Space

studies in indirect communication vol. xi

Can you believe I don't even seem to have the time to take photos of bits in my studio these days. Let alone do anything else to them. So what an excellent birthday present from scb: a hotel room on the 9th floor overlooking a blustery bay, no work, wifi and photos and scans of stuff that needed to be put on the blog. 


I've been making some drawings from last year much bigger and using Hammerite on paper instead of graphite. I love the various qualities it can create from high gloss to something that feels more like a rain-filled and glowering cloud on the horizon. My wall is beginning to look like some sort of thunderous cartoon dialogue.