The Museum of the Moon was surprisingly popular, so Wilson has been devoting a bit more time to his little Art Gallery.
At long last, he has 'acquired' something I can really relate to – a work by my artistic hero Mark Boyle!
I first became aware of artist Mark Boyle when he was doing Liquid Light Shows at various London underground clubs – UFO, Middle Earth etc – in the 60s.
My acquaintance was renewed when I stumbled across his Journey to the Surface of the Earth show at (I think) the ICA, where I was transfixed.
The entire Boyle Family has made a lifelong work of (among other things) Earthprobes: scrutinising and replicating fragments of reality, cloning randomly chosen little areas of ground using fibreglass and original found materials and presenting them back to the viewer as three-dimensional constructions indistinguishable from the real thing.
Byron and I stood in front of this work and admired it at some length, and I sincerely thanked Wilson for allowing me to see it.
Later, gazing out of the living room window, I noticed a large hole in the road at the bottom of the drive which I'd never noticed before!
Surely he hasn't…
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There's a lovely film about Mark Boyle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwFaGh_QpDM
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