Mark Pawson makes books, badges, t-shirts, and other collectible multiples. These include road maps with weather symbols overprinted on them, and a book of plug wiring diagrams. Finding inspiration in the everyday and making what would otherwise be junk into something approaching outsider art is something great. It makes me wish I was more of a hoarder. Maybe if I had a garage or a shed, I like collecting things to use in my work, but too much of it and I start to feel slightly panicky, all that stuff. The artist Daniel Spoerri possibly had the solution, making his ’snare’ pictures. These objects which could have described as sculptures, consisted of all the detritus left on a table, usually after a meal, being attached to a board, or a real table top, and mounted on the wall.
