This is the last of this series of posts. To end with, I asked him a couple of questions that hopefully says something more about him, compared to the previous, more industry-related questions.
What piece of art would you get personally, barring any financial constraints or space constraints or whatever?
That’s definitely a tough question because I feel as though the paintings that you would think of instantly like Van Gogh’s Starry Night, these have become so priceless and so omnipresent, it’s in college dorm posters, postcards, it’s like the actual object loses it’s meaning. I feel like it’s better that it stays in the museum for everyone to see, I don’t need to own it to have it in my room.
So the artwork that I would actually like to own, I think the only answer I can give is sometimes there are types or artists that I would love to start collecting that are still reasonable and if I had a little money I would love to have now because I know in ten or twenty years it will be astronomical. Most of them are Indian modern and contemporary because that is what I am a sort of budding expert on. There are certainly some sculptures I would love to own, by an artist called Subodh Gupta and his wife, Bharti Kher. Subodh Gupta works with pots and pans that you would find in the kitchen but he makes these amazing sculptures with them. And his wife, you know the Bindi, she arranges them in these amazing abstract works or in big third eye arrangements that are beautiful.
So for my last question I thought I’d be random and ask you: What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
If I could not fail… wow this is definitely a miss universe kind of question (laughs).
If I could not fail, what would I do? Hmm… well, aside from the schoolboy sports stuff…I don’t know. I think in a very humble way, I’d like to be able to write the greatest science fiction short story or book or something. Because I feel as though writing is the easiest thing to fail at, it’s so full of pitfalls, and to actually put something together, I would love to be able to do that. But that’s a distant second to all the schoolboy sports stories, you know like win Wimbledon or the World Cup.
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