After art school, in London, all the artists I knew had a part-time job. It was a relief to see there was no shame in it. I spent quite a few years working for a community arts project Freeform in Hackney, producing and eventually helping design large scale murals around the city and further. My colleagues were highly skilled. Paint on the murals was one layer thick - there was no messing around. My first task was to paint a plant. It could be anything that fitted the space allowed. So I painted the one I knew best, a cheeseplant.
My boss was horrified. I could hear snickers from the back. I thought I had painted it rather well, thinly, and with flourish. But it was pretty much the dead monstera from my student flat. They wanted perfect Disney. Not the cloud of unknowing. That was a lesson.
There are some images here that concern themselves with utopias, inside and out… https://porty.net/blindwells/homes2.html
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