second hand bargains

well, sorry for delay.
i saw this the other day as I digressed from route to find a cash point.
it made me think of your golden butts, graves and skull. Are you making charms?
I thought as i wasn't doing golden things id found one instead. which in one sense true, someone had collected and saved and been gifted these precious items at times that we can only guess at and now it sits in the pawn shop, waiting like your items, to be found and its story made new sense of - second hand bargain indeed.
So what of steve and his golden fleece - i like it and yes the first 2 photos are the ones and i agree that to wait for jon to photo seems too much. I also wonder at your struggle with the photo issue of good quality photos, what is your intention for the pieces. I like the blog as the end point for some of this work - where the process of thinking and making is revealed meaning sometimes you only have your phone and so that is what is used which may mean shit quality but it is about capturing the thought at that moment. But I can see your thinking in that some of the work is like a satelite or moon and is self contained and finished in its own right, but just because its shot by jon doesnt make it mean more - its an addition unneccesary in the work, that is unless your interventions are part of a documentary revealing your process and you in the work. the skull piece is a nice piece it does lots and i think works, because i know all the thinking and making. Im interested in how if you were to show these photos if there would be a text accompaniment to reveal the process, because i wonder if they are presented without they are just nice photos of a golden skull and then it does other things. I like the idea perhaps of the conversation of you and tim walking to place it, or you and kim about not wanting to let it go. nothing too obvious or didactic
I agree that perhaps you dont have to golden something from every find, it seems that the skull and fag end works and the grave stone doesnt - perhaps its to out there, because i like the idea of the arbeograph being done, i think its the conecttion to people. the skull, fag and tree graffiti will only be found by a small number, i can imagine the person who scratched the tree returning to the site and rediscovering the gold addition and wondering why, its the same with the fags and skull. Whereas the x on the grave is to public and tricksy - x marks the spot? i like the quietness of the other pieces. It like talking to someone at every site - it cant always be done, but then its not always nessascery.
I like it when our collaborations grow in an unforced way, a new way reveals itself and we grab it and add it and it makes the whole thing better. I think this is a good dogma to follow.
I like that we cant see the end and at the momnet it feels good and winding, and its not right to force it to be something. Lets keeping going and looking and see what reveals itself.