26/03/11
The Tower bristles in the sharp autumnal sunshine; it's somebody's birthday today. Security guards leave their cards in the shade.
22/03/11
People of the Tower
People of the Hidden Door
People of the Wine Cask
People of the Car Headlights
People of the Footpaths
People of the Leaking Roof
People of the Sky Windows
People of the Hungry Dogs
People of the Lost $20
People of the Narrow Path
People of the Guarded Look
People of the Cloven Pottery
People of the Twilight Garden
People of the Dreaming Seas
Consumables
01/03/11
1. Almond croissant (unfinished)
2. "Monsac" briefcase
3. "The Rock Version of the Lords' Prayer" LP
4. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot LP
5. 12 pack of jotter pads
6. Whiteboard markers
7. Short black and a strong latte
8. Small green cigarette lighter
9. 5 x Pints & 3 x pots of beer
02/03/11
1. 3 x Newspapers
2. Tobacco, Filters, papers
3. Chili & Lemongrass vegetables, Crispy skin chicken & rice
4. 4 x strong latte's, short black
5. Rocky road
04/03/11
1. Fisherman's Friends
2. Short Black
3. Ping Pong balls
4. Aviary Mesh
07/03/11
1. Tuna baguette
2. 2x strong, watery Aldo coffee's
3. 10x packet of 12 ping pong balls
4. 2x masking tape
5. short black
6. 3x Italian-Vietnamese handmade spring rolls
7. Daily "news"
8. 3x pints, 1x pot beer
9. packet of peter stuyvesant cigarettes
10. spinach & cheese indigestion inducing pide
08/03/11
1. Tuna toasted sandwich
2. Strong cafe latte
3. Pack of 72 wooden pegs
4. Barbecue chicken roll
5. Chocolate profiterole
09/03/11
1. 3x 10m power cables
2. 2x power board
3. 2x 5m roll of 3mm clear vinyl tube
4. cafe "normale"
5. cassette adaptor
6. Translucent bucket
7. "Pasticciotti"
10/03/11
1. Short black, strong cafe latte
2. 1x "Pasticciotti"
3. The Ting Tings-"We started nothing" CD
4. Pristine bound collection of Paul Robeson 78's
13/03/11
1. 'Daily News'
2. Panadol
3. organic orange, carrot, raspberry, blueberry, beetroot juice
15/03/11
1. LED Torch
2. 4x AAA batteries
3. Panadol
4. Votive candles
5. 3x gold leaf necklaces
3x gold bauble necklace
1x fake pearl brooch
6. short black
7. supa-glue
16/03/11
1. Box of Green Tea
2. Alarm clock
3. Tea cup
4. LED lamp
5. Bag of Xmas Bells
17/03/11
1. Short Black
18&20/03/11
1. Non-Aldo strong latte
2. Block of Cadbury's Black Forest Chocolate
3. Pre-made egg & ham salad roll
21/03/11
1. 1x halogen lamp
22/03/11
1. Short black
2. Rice paper rolls
3. 20x photocopies
25/03/11
1. 2x disposable overalls
2. 2x yard gloves
3. metal bucket
4. rake
5. black whiteboard marker
10/03/11
Behind the Tower, beneath the ground, secrets are absorbed like moisture. Whilst people with dogs curse as they beat the paths above, below the tinkering of arcane visions keeps rhythm with the seeping water. The roots of the Tower descend deep into mystery.
09/03/11
Raindrops are briefly glimpsed, set apart by their fluid nature from that of the Tower - the Immovable Mover. Each window is an eye with its corresponding raindrop held in fascination for a moment. They both glint and convex the world before withdrawing and falling into their respective pools of reflection. A young boy with his schoolshirt torn open drinks from a large bottle of red soft-drink - he splashes through reflected pools.
08/03/11
The charred outlines of spontaneous oblations attest to the devotion of the residents. As bread rolls sail down from the windows above, it becomes apparent there are different paths for different sets of feet - the path directly beneath the tower is primarily for single walkers in single file, pushing up into the one-wind; or security guards warily walking in circles.
07/03/11
The tower rises like a blue flame, steady and unprovoked. Cool heads are kept down and mosquitoes breed. The god of desolation lumbers down the passageways, annihilating the worth of personal possessions and ejecting them out the windows to become dust with the desert below.
04/03/11
The wind only blows in one direction - there is no left or right, only behind. Children's voices bounce around the internal passageways and are carried away by the one-wind. Sometimes the shadow of a face projects above the surrounding rooftops.
02/03/11
The tower creates a space, a blustering impermanence, its gaps unstoppable, its languages unknowable. The cycle of lost and found - songs, shoelaces, faces etc. - begins again each day.
Songs Composed on Forgotten Piano
- "Music of the spheres"
- "Untitled"
- "goodnight my cave"
- "The grounds frolicked dizzyingly toward my gaze"
- "Rose, my rose"
- "Rain machine"
- "Anatomical reliquary for a votive mattress"
- "It's so serene . . . be here forever alltime"
- "Rain (versus the world after dragon)"
- "Calling name, calling me"
- "Is this home"
- "Beneath each footfall is a minor scale'"
- "The wind blows cockroaches onto their backs"
- "The cockroach gets back on its feet"
- "Look! The stars spin me out (navel gazing at the moon)"
- "The Cockroach Variations"
01/03/11
Morning spectres travelate towards the tea and coffee. Compact ladies have been slicing vegetables in their sleep - a waking dream where hands and words cut quickly through the mire outside. From another corner a scramble of volatile fingers scratch away at the keys of an ill-tuned piano - inchoate music that sways unsteadily beneath a tower of uncertainty.
