The Things I Found in My Pockets and My Notebook 

Convener(s):  Peter Cant

Participants:

Undisclosed.

  

Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations: 

THINGS WE FOUND IN OUR POCKETS

Donations To The Group

Receipt Vue Finchley Road with 2 pizzas for £12 offer

Ticket stub from Norwich arts centre

T Kettle Bonus Card

Norfolk and Norwich business card

A whole garlic

A phone number (07752219228)

A photo of four women on Graduation Day, one has had her head cut out

A free party invite

A Receipt for FABULOUS WELSHCAKES

Sanisbury’s Waterloo – Receipt for bottled water and croissant

Receipt for Nationwide account, account number ending *************44288

LINDSEY HOPE PEARLMAN business card with glamorous headshot

CAFFE NERO reward card with one stamp on its way to a free coffee

Envelope with loads of phone numbers and addresses and this code: J89*XLFJ

A branded piece of paper from the Young Vic with the name Mark Rosenblatt written in red ink

New York Wallet Subway Map

No fit state Carnet Valid for 10 weeks

10 Nov – 19 Jan

Plastic bag for 3D glasses

Shopping list for making couscous (ONION,
GARLIC
CELERY

COUSCOUS ORGANIC

CUMIN

PAPRIKA

RED PEPPERS
CORRIANDER

PARSLEY

MINT

RAISINS
ORANGE JUICE

EGGS

CANDLES

STOCK

WINE)

A stick

  

Other Things

The process of taking out everything from your pockets and bags and wallets 

SHAME?

  • dirty handkerchief, tampons, business cards, drugs in handbag
  • train ticket to Cardiff

EXPOSING  

SCALE

CLUTTER

Maps people draw you when you’re somewhere strange. In which “DISTANCE IS MEASURED IN MINUTES” or by the landmarks. The pubs etc

Letter from Grandfather – “ The joy of life is in the struggle for what you want to achieve “   (He is a bad man)

Little pieces of paper

Master Key (do not copy)

Banana

Moisturizer

(COINS) Change that’s worth something  £ £ £ $ $ $ $

“you had a piece of garlic in your pocket…”

NICE to reflect on what you carry with you .  A RUBBISH SHOW. A PIECE OF RUBBISH

Tickets, receipts, cards

Photograph of me as a baby, used for    A THERAPY SESSION

??

How to survive?  A shack in Suffolk.

The word IMMURE

Thoughts on abroad and on boundaries

SURVIVAL

CONTROLLED RECKLESSNESS

Conscious awareness of only 7 things

BEAUTY

How can we control the context around the objects in order to make everything beautiful?

HAT and FLAT

Charles Simic 

Melancholy= desire to change

Fear= Reluctance / Avoidance to act

Anger=Desire for clarity

Joy= desire to live

“ I think the very nature of Art is Affirmative, and in being so it reflects the laws and the evolution of the universe” (Barbara Hepworth)

“We are such stuff as dreams… etc”

GUADALUPE NETTEL

El Huesped: In the wound there was something familiar and at the same time unknown

En la heirda habia algo familiar y al mismo tiempo irreconocible 

SUBCONSCIOUS Keep things stowed away. Why> ? like  atime capsule, a subconscious reminder. Waiting for them to reappear in your bag, your pockets, your notebook …

The phone card I WAS GOING TO USE TO CALL MY GIRLFRIEND IN AMERICA AFTER SHE HAD SLEPT WITH A WOMAN AND HAD SEX WITH MULTIPLE PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME AT THE BURNING MAN. I NEVER USED IT.I NEVER CALLED HER. BECAUSE SHE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT I WANTED TO SAY