This is art

5.30 yesterday afternoon an email arrived from the studio building administrators;

Dear artists

Hope you’re all well, we have a team of movers coming on site tomorrow to do a building-wide clear out of furniture, rubbish and items that have been dumped in communal hallways and other areas. If you have any items that aren’t in the boundaries of your studio they may be considered rubbish and our team will be disposing of them.

Kindest Regards

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To paraphrase, hey messy effers, if you don’t organise your crap within your own space by tomorrow morning, we’re binning it.

This sent a wave of hysteria through the inmates, sorry, artists.

There was much cleaning up, clearing out and labelling of items late last night and early this morning

Labels defining those items that could be considered art were applied, distinguishing said item from other items that might be described as rubbish.

I have really enjoyed them.

I want to see this, post it, labelling practice implemented throughout galleries internationally, replacing those often pompous lengthy bits of prose that accompany paintings and sculptures.

This is art…not rubbish.

I made a note for my studio too, I stuck it to the floor in the hallway.

Nothing beyond this point is rubbish……..it’s all fabulous