Look what they've done to my song ma!
Yesterday I took myself off to panic buy some layout paper in order to experiment with Andy Warhol’s inkblot drawing technique. It was a more homely version of the screen prints that made him famous. Having now tried it I can report that the best results come from the technique’s mechanistic detachment from what you are actually drawing. This is actually what good drawing does anyway in the sense that the drawer is removed from the linguistic concept of the subject. Anyway, I didn’t intend to talk about that, but these things have a way of entangling their way into the subject. The event always decides the subject no matter how much we post rationalise our intentions. So quite by chance I made my way to Ryman’s (a shop I habitually use for self-soothing) where the layout pads were an inordinate £9.99 but still they seemed good and I couldn't be bothered to walk to Smith’s. When I went to pay I remember that the shop does not allow contactless payment and patted my pockets as I br...