I enjoyed reading the interview with Hockney, thanks for passing it on.

The debates about photography and its relationship to truth, reality and representation are not new, a lot has been written. However, there is indeed a lot of theory but as far as I know there is not much practical work about it. Both Hockney and Richter's work seems to be an open debate about the relationship of these different mediums and in effect about human perception. They both have a very individual way of looking.

I thought it was interesting what he said about layering, that painting comes in forms of layers just like our own reality in which we are always learning and seeing things in different ways. To me a painting or a photograph often pin points something by means of extraction and simplification, collages can make aspects more complex than they are. But as Hockney says, in a sense collages are paintings.

Perhaps it is a clue for us: collages can become a collaboration of different mediums. Perhaps it is a medium we could explore in similar ways to painting. And we could ask people to send us pieces from around the world which we could add to our collages. Collaboration on collaboration with mediums which collaborate.

I think using the different mediums is also why we could be interesting for someone like the media centre and perhaps that is what we have to play on if we work on a proposal to Charlotte.