Barry Flanagan & Albert Munsell

In 1991, after ‘retiring from trade’ as Flanagan put it, he commissioned me to find a book entitled “A Color Notation” written in 1905 by Albert Munsell who lived in Massachusetts.
This system of defining color by hue, value and chroma Munsell invented so he and his friend, Robert Louis Stevenson who lived in California, could [...]

Cork Street

Central London in the rain.
Losing my way to a Cork Street Gallery I once knew well.
The pile of sand has the wrong color.
A catalogue of inventions.
The loss of a friend.
Purple prose on an unforgiving windy day
When attitude offends form.

Madmen

1.

If black and white could meet
Every day, like we have met,
The world would be a beautiful Space.

2,
In what diction, may a man lay down the law on Art and pass his judgement off, as knowledge?
Which program on any system, (IBM or otherwise),
may sense the passing of hand over page?
Whose are these silent scribblings, their cosmic [...]