Text art/collage/ Isolation Artist

RTomens, 2020

The image is from a book I'm putting together. Meanwhile...

Bingeing on Haribos, coffee and chocolate - comfort food! Self-isolating is nothing new for me; I'm used to it, although I couldn't actually stay within the confines of The Cave for two weeks. I'd miss visiting friends, if I had any. 

On Tuesday I was relieved to see that most of my regular charity shop haunts were still open, but I wonder how long that will last? The world really does come to an end when I can't scour the second-hand book shelves. The UK's caving in to follow the examples of other countries in lock down when in reality the government should demand we stay open but be mindful of old folk and always wash our hands before eating Haribos. Instead the arseholes are doing what needs doing to look as if it's being taken as seriously as others take it. People will lose jobs and businesses over all this shit and they don't need to. 

Meanwhile, jokes about artists in isolation surface based around the idea that IT'S TIME TO BE CREATIVE! and a comedian gears his Twitter account up as an 'art' gallery for people to send in the idiot art - bah! If you're an artist and creative what the fuck do you do most of the time anyway? Fanny around weeping to yourself about not being recognised or creatively 'blocked'? Pah! 

I'm off to not watch the news. Get out and about! And if you see any loo rolls, get me some, please. If I have to, I will start using some of those cheap books from charity shops.