Franko B and beyond

I attended a visual arts forum this week here in Cornwall that brought home the fact that I am living at the end of the Country. Not that this is a bad thing, but it does highlight a train of thought that if we are down here, something more interesting must be happening up there or in another country. Again this is not a bad thing as the viewing of things afar contextualise an artist's practice. I am not sure that a locality exist in a static fashion anymore. It can be shored up and external stimulus ignored, but there are few places in the western world that you can truly disconnect. Ignoring what is taking place in the bigger world is not losing yourself in a local scene, but deciding where your focus is. The other is still there, waitng to be noticed.

Franko is going to be in my studio next week. I am looking around and thinking what the f... is he going to think?