Hookland 10/2/21 3:34:13

@maximpetergriff The plumber and the person on the check-out at the Co-Op are as impacted by superstition and the enfolding weird as the PhD parapsychologist. This seems to be missed in much of the uncanny. If it is a divide between court portraits and working class paintings, I know my place.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:23:44

@maximpetergriff I was trying to explain – badly as it turns out – on a podcast about the importance of working class voices in Hookland and the image that came to me after was his The Harvesters.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:12:50

@maximpetergriff I didn‰Ûªt really understand that when younger, but I do now. Also discovered some of his Pylon/transmission tower photos from the 1950s, so something in the DNA.

Hookland 10/2/21 3:02:09

@maximpetergriff Only spoke to my father twice after the age of four, but I know his favourite painters were Canaletto and Bruegel and that he liked Canaletto’s capriccio as it took real vision to do those and Bruegel as ‘peasant up means place’.