I reached heaven and it was syrupy

This morning Sandra Lane's sculpture is cocking a snook at the allure of beauty salon, toy and gift shops in The Traverse; Kevin Acott reflects. 

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From ‘Transformation and Escape’ by Gregory Corso
 
I reached heaven and it was syrupy.
It was oppressively sweet.
Croaking substances stuck to my knees.

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I think sex – how can you not? 

I think of the word ‘succour’. I think of the word ‘saccharine’. I think of the fiddling-with-Blu Tack-while-boredness of grey classrooms. I think of the rushhhhh of sugar pouring into a grateful container. I think of my Mum’s cooking bowl and of licking the sweet cake-mix inside. I think of a misshapen world on top of a mountain. I think of the baroque and want to spell it barock. I think of ‘The Beatles’ being named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘Dumbest Band Names In Rock History’. I think how different my life might have been if Kerouac and Ginsberg had never existed. I think of the taste of Motown and the sound of a good bourbon. I think of seeing the photograph of men working the fields in North Carolina and their stern beauty.

I think sex – how can you not? 
 
Kevin Acott

Sandra Lane worked as a journalist and a photographer prior to attending art school. She graduated from BA Fine Art Drawing at Camberwell College of Art in 2013 receiving the Camberwell Acme Studio Award. She completed an MFA Sculpture at the Slade School of Art in 2017 followed by the Slade Summer Residency and the Sydney Nolan Trust Residency. Recent projects include:  Her Mit Projects, February 2020, Collyer Bristow Graduate Award Show, Exceptional, November 2019-February 2020, Trophy,  Simsmith Gallery, July-August 2019,  What Kind of Spirit is This, Simsmith Gallery May-June 2019. Twitter and Instagram @artysandralane www.sandra-lane.com

​Kevin Acott is a writer, lecturer, whiskey lover, and Spurs sufferer. He’s a sort of left libertarian/sort of anarchist who feels strangely attracted to French chansons, Greenland and Joseph Conrad as he gets older. His publishing, blog and projects can be found at  http://www.kevinacott.com/. Twitter @speranza6162 Instagram @speranza6162