Friday 12 February 2010

Richard Wentworth, Terra Firma 2009

 

"I like menus, I like the gap between desire and text and interpretation.  It's a social thing, coursing across the print, watching the maths, eyeing the props, taking pleasure in my ignorance, editing and re-editing.  You plan a risk, you rehearse a conservative choice, you plunge in.  It's only ingredients, processes and procedures but there is room to extemporise, to play clerk of works, to write a short play, to paint by numbers.  Talking is the same, just quicker.  I like using words to order and I like unfamiliar words.  I have, for want of language, pointed at other people's dishes and, very occasionally, I have ordered by numbers." Richard Wentworth

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