I have been known in the past to make some interesting impulse purchases, probably my most stupid was 2 1960’s bycycles. This box has to be my weirdest purchase I have ever made. It is in fact a piece of artwork from Ryan Wolf entitled “Acute Catarhh”, the artwork consists of this small box filled with old looking text, photographs, a lovely sketch of a nasal passage and a bottle of catarhh remedy. I have absolutely no recollection of how I stumbled upon his site but i’m glad I did as I am now proud owner of the strangest titled artwork I have ever seen.

Ryans work usually involves slightly scary representations of parts of the body and this was a set of 3 boxes about ailments. If you are interested to see what is inside the box visit Variance art.

I watched a program on TV about Bruce Nauman about 6 months ago. Bruce is an artist who mainly works in video. Before I watched the program I had seen some art video installations in modern galleries and have to say that I thought most of it was a load of rubbish. I just couldn’t see anything in it.

After watching the documentary on Nauman I completely changed my opinion and actually started looking at video art. The difference between Nauman’s work and art I had seen in galleries was that it was actually funny. Some of it hilariously funny. About 3 months after seeing the documentary on Nauman I bumped into Tom “Atomic Elroy” McElroy on the internet as we were both working independantly on the same project. Elroy’s work reminded me of the Nauman documentry and I really enjoyed watching his video’s. Some are thought provoking, others truly bonkers and also most are slightly comedic in some way. His latest work is entered into the Huffington Post Contagious festival and is worth a look.

This door appeared in the middle of my housing estate in Warwick about 3 weeks ago. It was something like the monolith from 2001, nobody exactly knew why it was there or what it was doing. Then I was walking round Warwick town centre and spotted 2 more, although these had the doors open. After a bit of digging it turns out that this is a church project to create the worlds largest advent calendar.

I think this was a brilliant idea, firstly as it gets your attention just by the fact that it is so odd when you first see one. Also it actually makes you think about what Christmas is really about. I personally think the idea and the execution of this is better than any so called modern art installation. I’m also really curious about was is behind door 19 and will be getting pictures today.