sickening

i pondered your post and liked the visual, conceptual link, which made me think of some more of tim ingold texts about wayfinding...Which after our weekend visit to cambridge made me think of maps, we didnt use one, but there is one on the web. We didn't use one because we know from experience which way to go. Which then made me think of andy talking about using the tom tom and that it sends him the back way and that he always finds good places he wouldnt find by taking the wrong turn and it correcting itself to get you to the destination. I liked that the tom tom becomes a collaborator.
I know its not off the beaten track but it is somewhere i havent been so am posting up the kettles yard photo next to its pinpoint map. I went with excitement, felt overwhelmed by good taste and came away feeling slightly claustrophobic due to it being too wierd and all a bit too nice too kept too sickening too middle class too beautiful too many times looked at too full of meaning. Perhaps made worse by the fact one of the assistants had an outfit on that coordinated with the natural colours and the bright pink of the micheal craig-martin piece thats part of the current show. I loved it but hated it more and it made me worry that i had somehow without ever seeing the place had made work that is very derivative of it - have i made work thats too nice, too considered, too tastefull!!! god i hope not.
But my point was is this the kind of place i am interested in working? In some sense yes as a way to subvert it, but mostly no as its done.. so considered so laden with an artist residency history, so i wanted to show an off the beaten track that i was happy to never visit again, and kinda wish i had never been to.