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The Look of Being Looked At
Publication: Other Articles
His famous line about being famous bored him. It was a throw-a-way that turned out to be a message in a bottle. Andy's prediction/warning/fortune cookie for the future washed up on the shores of Facebook and the X-Factor, American Idol and Twitter. In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Tweet perfect.
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The evolution of Tracey Emin
Publication: The Independent
The work on the wall is what we can see. Self-evident. We're here to look. We're here to look because we aren't good at looking.
We see what we need to see for information and interest, for safety, for certainty, but our observational powers are limited. Human beings are not microscopes or telescopes. We see what is within our range and miss the rest.
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Money and Me
Publication: Other Articles
Some years ago a coffee company came to me with a proposal to lease the ground floor and basement of my little house in Spitalfields, East London. They wanted a period property and were enthusiastic about the 1780's late Georgian shop front and the 1930's signage with its fading TO LET posters. They would remodel the interior and be part of the first wave of retail to realise that the City and its wealth were near by. My house had been on the market for fifteen years before I bought it, but suddenly the moneymen were noticing this part of town. It was absurd that only artists and activists, romantics and misfits, should live here.
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The Moomins and me
Publication: Other Articles
I will never forget it: Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden have captured the annoying sand-spraying Ant-Lion and stuffed him inside the Hobgoblin's hat. The hat has magical properties and whatever goes in comes out changed; eggshells into clouds you can ride, water into raspberry juice. To contain the Ant-Lion's rage they flatten him down in the hat with the Dictionary of Outlandish Words. 'You must take risks when experimenting' says Snufkin.
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Adopted.. Who Am I ?
Publication: Harpers Bazaar
Remember all those fairy stories where the Queen gives birth, goes back to look in the crib, and the baby pops its head out with furry ears or six feet of hair or a pair of webbed feet?
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