Well, 1,200 bottles actually.
After the festive period of over-excess, this symbol of alcohol consumption could be a timely reminder to anyone struggling with New Year’s drink-related resolutions.
Artist Mike Marshall collected the used wine and spirit bottles from friends, neighbours and dumping grounds near his home in the southern Tarn-et-Garonne region of France (not a bad country to land up in, on a wine bottle-finding mission). And then with them, he built his ‘folly’.
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Salvador Dali’s muse. One of Andy Warhol’s chosen ‘superstars’. Ultra Violet, now well into her seventies, still has a steely gaze and the considerable charisma that you might expect of her.
I took her portrait at the residence in Nice, France where Ultra spends time (when not in her New York home). In one lounge, another photographer was already in place when I arrived, lost in concentration shooting her latest installation piece, ‘Self Portrait’. Tradesmen were rushing to and fro. Ultra was alone at the centre of it all, calm and industrious.
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“I love…” How would you complete that sentence?
The only rules in this case are that it cannot be a) someone you know or b) something that someone else has already put.
“I love freedom”, Mohamed, Armée de Terre (Army Soldier)