– Dick Titch #1 (Afternoon), 2015 –
A very helpful sign has popped up outside Charing Cross station. It offers advice on a wide range of subjects, and I’ve pictured it here. Here are some of the other helpful things it says: “Don’t drink too much, know your limit and stop,” “Only take what you need,” and “Phone your mum.” Nikki made the last one up, but you get the idea. London, 2015.
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On 20th December 2014, Ashley Lily Scarlett and I started a conversation in pictures called Between Scarlett and Guest. Ashley is based in Sydney, Australia and I’m in Beckenham, UK – we have never met (although we nearly did once). We trade pictures on an almost daily basis. Dick Titch #1 has not appeared in BSAG yet, (but the Afternoon half has). Below is my side of the conversation from 18th November to 1st December 2015. It incorporates archive images and those taken specifically in answer to one of Ashley’s shots.
You can start “reading” Between Scarlett and Guest from any point (and read backwards or forwards) and it should still make some kind of sense.
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The Future Is Papier Mâché 
Nice use of orange bags, whats did you use for hair, silver foil?
Thanks very much, Leon. The hair is black carrier bags. I hate the pig fancier even more today. Sorry I didn’t make it to your show – I’ve been ill pretty much up until today.
That’s ok Richard, its that time of year.
I know exactly what you mean am fuming with the decision but not surprised by the outcome of the vote
No, i think it was a foregone conclusion. Don’t know how those people sleep at night…
Great to see all the pics together like that
Thanks very much – glad you like it.
Wonderful sequence. A fascinating creative collaboration that demonstrates the potential of new forms of mass media.
Thanks so much, Joseph! What a fantastic compliment.
Excellent work, my friend… 🙂
Thanks very much, Drake! 🙂
I really like both pictures in conjunction.
Really glad you like it – thanks very much, Rabirius.
How cool is Dick, and isn’t he keeping it close!
Ha, thanks!
VERY cool Dick Titch, Richard. I can’t tell you how much I like your portrait of the afternnon. 😉
It’s good seeing a whole bunch of your BSAGs together too.
I hope you’re all well again, now.
Ha ha, thanks very much, Ashley. Still ill as The Smiths would say…fed up with it now.
It’s a great collaboration, keep it up!
Thanks very much. It’s great fun, so can’t see it stopping any time soon.
I once lived in Beckenham – 1987 to mid-1988. How about that?
What a coincidence – I quite like it here! I was in Tooting 1987-8 in a student house, which all year round smelt of home brew. We shared it with a family of mice.
Yes, Tooting was grimy back then. I recorded something in a studio there in 1988, and the place was like library footage of London in the 1970s: permanent traffic jam, smells of exhaust, reggae blasting from shops etc. I’m sure the mice had a good time.
Yes, that’s the one – long dole queues, rubbish everywhere, “interesting” pubs…
Ha, great title!
‘Afternoon’ fascinates me but it’s almost suffocating too. I like how uncomfortable it makes me…
Thanks!
Yes, it’s intended as an insult to the “sitter” – he insults us enough after all…
I’m partial to the “Phone your Mom’:)
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