Studio

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 there on the steps in the sunshine for hours

salve 1 salv/ noun 1 . an ointment used to promote healing of the skin or as protection. "the wound should be washed with water and then a salve applied" synonyms: ointment ,  cream ,  balm ,  unction ,  unguent ,  balsam ,  pomade ,  rub , embrocation ,  emollient ,  liniment "lip salve" verb 1 . soothe (wounded pride or one's conscience). "charity salves our conscience" synonyms: soothe ,  lighten ,  alleviate ,  assuage ,  comfort ,  ease ,  allay ,  dull ,  mollify , mitigate ,  palliate 2 . archaic apply salve to. "the salved my cuts and stopped the bleeding"

'Lately I have been thinking about how my work as an artist could have value outside of the market and the discursive traveling circus in which information and opinion are reified as meaning. In a secular world it feels like art – both the objects (works) and the process (labour) would be massively useless, or worthless, if we stripped away all the commerce and concept. The extraordinary exchange in which ideas become money is quite magical really, like water into wine - and there are plenty of artists who devote their whole study to this alchemy. But me, I’m sceptical of enlightened attitudes to magic, since I feel like we’re a faithful species, always believing in something or other - and like Mulder & Scully, I want to believe. At art school you’re supposed to develop a practice. I know this because I teach there sometimes. Everyone tries to understand what their practice could be, even though for many people the whole notion of an art-school-standard ‘art practice’ s...