

Death by Concrete, Gutted
I'm still focusing on the relationship between humankind and nature; the urban sprawl that creeps ever outwards like an alien slime, I'm imagining a monochrome future where grass can only exist between the cracks... As a material to work with, concrete is surprisingly useable, wrapped in cellophane it can be bound with string around a birch stick, the bulging sacks taking on a delicate skin-like surface. It can entomb an ash and birch faggot, preserving the sticks in a proces


Copenhagen
Finding Copenhagen Contemporary on a blustery day in March was just about the best thing to happen - making a wish at Yoko Ono's Wish Tree Garden on the quay side and watching the eerie Human Mask (2014) by Pierre Huyghe. Moving up and down Zealand by train, people's lives passing by, house by house. Barnett Newman's lithographs at Louisiana and Arken on Sunday.