These are not my words. Bob Nickas said that. I read his small book “collection diary” over the weekend, in which he recounts his project of buying art over a year. Yes, the thing just has a mere 60 pages. How could I possibly need the whole weekend for reading it? Maybe it’s because I read it four times. And again this morning on the train.

What did it for me is his explanation of artists and what artworks did it for him. His documentary grows more personal with each page. True, it’s not an in depth review of anything. It’s more like overhearing a person second to next to you telling their story of to someone else. That’s what I like about it.

He got me extremely hooked on Trisha Donnelly’s work “I am taking your morning”, as transcribed on page 58. This is an awesome piece of wording. I wish I wrote that. I can so understand Nick’s desire to own that. And I haven’t even heard the sound piece!

It’s been a long time since I engaged in something so much that I dreamed about it a whole complete night. Last nights dream was filled with a mixture of art and setting up the platform Independent Collectors.

We were dealing with art in the same way we did with the website. We were looking for bugs. In art. And we had the artists fix them. As if artists were programmers. At the same time, artists started naming the different parts of the site according to complex concepts they had developed for, let’s say the “Contact” button.

Maybe I should rest over the weekend. Yet, it’s so hard to resist looking for more art. Yesterday evening I started to have a look at a lot of galleries’ websites. I find them so hard to look at, for some reason. There is so much clicking involved if you want to browse through their artists’ portfolios. I must develop a way of using my tools like stumble a bit better to bookmark artists and art. Otherwise I think I will go crazy …

Do you dream about art?

PS: Talking about looking at art, there is a lot of that to look at at Independent Collectors already. More than 100 artworks from private collections have been uploaded and a lot of it has been set free for “public viewing” by the collectors. Have a peek here if you like.

I’m a bit funny when it comes to humour. For one, I constantly make incredibly awful puns. And I have a hard time accepting humour in a number of genres. Science Fiction for example. No jokes please!

I guess this is due to my own weird sense of humour. Which is why I laugh about drum-solos, for example. Contemporary art however, can be so extremely funny it continues to amaze me. Just now, I had a look at some works by Erwin Wurm (link). Namely the “Looking for a bomb” series (#3 is my favourite, see, I promised links!).

This is so incredibly funny. Especially the way the people look in his photographs. I think this is probably one of his main skills. Make people look dead serious. Apart from the other things he does that don’t include people.

Yes, Erwin Wurm is one of my favourite artists. What other artists could be thrown in the same bucket?