Obsédé

I've been looking at saints and pilgrimage for my current art project, this is just a little bit of what I've been carrying to and from school every single day as a result.

My sketchbook has gone all collage-y, mainly out of impatience; frustration with drawing. The book of european saints (top left) was £2.50 from a wonderfully overstuffed bookshop in Altrincham. St Thomas Aquinas is the patron saint of pencilmakers. Ss Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia are the patron saints of those who find difficulty in early rising. (Perfect.) The drawings are from some old photographs of my grandad, when he went on a motorcycle tour. There seems a great romance to the idea of a grand tour. Seeing the wonders of Europe one after the other.

'George takes a break.'

I'm a bit obsessed with Rimbaud after reading Patti Smith's book Just Kids. I'm a bit obsessed with with Patti Smith too. Searching out the perfect black poloneck. But Une Saison en Enfer really is quite powerful, and links back to the religious themes that seem to be permeating my life at the moment.

EDIT: My little book of saints didn't make clear that Vitus and Guido are actually the same saint. But then the internet might not be that reliable either.