Fires Were Started

Went to see the show about him at the Serpentine. What brilliant art - feels revolutionary and new today, like nothing else you ever see. Why didn’t people all follow his example and do something totally new? It’s a tribute to him that a lot of it still feels shocking.

I liked his montages the best - under the pressure of soviet bureaucrats., I felt like his photos got sedate and sad, although still beautiful. But I like him being rough, not beautiful.

I made a few good montages when I first started university - I made one using this picture and some silly headlines. I spent years regretting it, because the person I gave it to hated it, but actually, I now think it was interesting. Shame I’ll never see it again.

I didn’t really know computers then - it’d be so easy to photoshop a bad version now, that would be really sad.