Archive for February, 2008

Rat Race - Object writing 17 Feb

admin February 22nd, 2008

Rat Race - Object writing 17 Feb
We’re all hanging by the straps as the bus jumps along in the rat race derby. My arm tightens and loosens like a balloon being blown up and let down. every couple of seconds, then weight is transferred to balls of my feet as the bus lurches arounds a corner. It feels like it’s up […]

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb

admin February 21st, 2008

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb
It’s like a building site, you’ve got to shout over the top of the construction machinery to be heard, my hand cups my ear to define the response from the proprietor who might be Greek/Italian…. or Greek/ Italian/ Chinese.How they can work in there? I don’t know. When I walk in the humidity and heat […]

Survey - Object Writing 21 Feb

admin February 20th, 2008

Survey - Object Writing 21 Feb
“Hello,’ Mr/Ms X [insert name of person whose name is in phone book] ?…. I’m conducting a survey…… A small squeaky nasal voice buzzes in my ear. ‘Another mosquito caller’ I think. I thought they weren’t meant to call, being on the ‘no call’ list as I now am.“Some one between the age of 30 […]

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb

admin February 20th, 2008

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb
It’s like a building site, you’ve got to shout over the top of the construction machinery to be heard, my hand cups my ear to define the response from the proprietor who might be Greek/Italian…. or Greek/ Italian/ Chinese.How they can work in there? I don’t know. When I walk in the humidity and heat […]

ironing board - object writing -20 Feb

admin February 19th, 2008

ironing board - object writing -20 Feb
Its a launching pad for the space shuttle. Puffs of steam spit from the power hungry iron. Inside it’s like an Olympian charging itself up, ready for another hurdle, or about to do the pole vault or the 200 meters. Another piece of clothing prostates itself before the iron, Seated on the flat lifeless horizon […]

Manager - object writing 19 Feb

admin February 19th, 2008

Manager - object writing 19 Feb
He sits in a corner office with panorama view, surveying the world he commands, he reaches out and digs his hands into the earth and picks up a handful of ground, rips at the corners of a football field and pulls it up like it is a sheet or a table cloth. The manager is […]

Rubber Band - Object writing Feb 14

admin February 18th, 2008

Rubber Band - Object writing Feb 14
It plays the mail in the posties hand, squeezing the addresses and letters back and forth, the faded yellow embracing the letters like a relative that hasn’t been seen for a long time who’s just got off a long international flight . Wet dog slobber kisses on the cheek. that’s the way the elastic is […]

Rubber Band - Object writing Feb 14

admin February 18th, 2008

Rubber Band - Object writing Feb 14
It plays the mail in the posties hand, squeezing the addresses and letters back and forth, the faded yellow embracing the letters like a relative that hasn’t been seen for a long time who’s just got off a long international flight . Wet dog slobber kisses on the cheek. that’s the way the elastic is […]

Wicker Chair - Class exercise Feb13

admin February 17th, 2008

Wicker Chair - Class exercise Feb13
It’s sitting in the corner of the indoor sunroom, sitting there like the final tooth of a life long smoker, it’s yellowed with age and parts around the edges are a dark dark brown going on black. A black hole that has sucked in hundreds of conversations while filtered sunlight illuminates dust motes dancing in […]

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb

admin February 17th, 2008

Dry clean- Object Writing 13th Feb
It’s like a building site, you’ve got to shout over the top of the construction machinery to be heard, my hand cups my ear to define the response from the proprietor who might be Greek/Italian…. or Greek/ Italian/ Chinese.How they can work in there? I don’t know. When I walk in the humidity and heat […]

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