MELODY VAUGHAN
A note on building sites:
They are hives of activity, and I love to watch people work. It is a site of simultaneous creation and destruction, both of which fascinate me. There are usually a number of holes in the ground, controlled glimpses into what is buried underneath. Usually it is just the tarmac topping and the crumbly rubbly filling beneath, a kind of millionaires shortbread, but often there are wires or pipes. Scaffolding
The other day I had an interesting conversation with a couple of creative practitioner friends and we were talking about all the ideas that we have that will never become actual things. And we lamented that in many instances it’s actually the ideas that we love about our work, rather than the doing/acting on them, and wouldn’t it be lovely to be paid to just have the ideas. All my museum jobs hinged on me
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