Having tried so hard to make a blog entry everyday, It proved too much to do on holiday. But now I’m back home and will probably mention it once or twice in the coming weeks.

Meantime, there’s an awful lot to sort out!

I’ve been to few exhibitions where Rachael Whiteread’s work was on show, and I’ve always felt she stands out from the run of the mill YBAs. She expresses an intellectual rigour that is missing from the showmen of the group.

Her work seems not to be about the object, but about the spaces inbetween.

Coming up from the beach this morning, I noticed the plant in the picture. The sun was so bright, I didn’t notice the plant itself at first, but the structure and the shapes inbetween. It looks quite like a scientist’s model of a carbon based nano structure.

I felt that all the spaces between the spines would happily accept a pingpong ball.

It’s a kind if convergence with science and art – the mega and the nano exploring the same thing. And so it should be. Art and science should work together. All the greatest scientific insights have come from artistic moments.

I’ve just been going through the 2000 or so channels available on European satelite tv.

So much available and so little to watch. Every few stations appear to be earnest folk calling on us all to repent and turn to whatever branch of religion they are selling.

They split into two types. The lean and hungry, with swivelling, guilty eyes. They must have done something terrible in their own eyes at sometime and now feel qualified to demand we all join them and help them atone for their pasts.

The other sort look fat and prosperous. These are the religious businessmen who are in it for the career prospects and the self-glorification of being on tv.

The one thing that unites these two types is that they are voices in the wilderness of dubbed baywatch repeats, shopping channels and recycled pop videos.