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’.

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 3:23:44

@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 3:34:13

@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.