One More Day to Regret
Saturday, June 23, 2007
So today has been fun. Not only was I mugged at knife point, in the middle of the day by three people, and robbed of all my money that was for my trip to Jo'burg (you bet, after all the criticism laid at this blog's feet about being parochial, ArtHeat will be going to review Africa Remix). But this happened outside our premier agency of art, The Iziko South African National Gallery. Surely there would be some security guarding our archives of art, and the good souls that are interested to see it. Imagine if somebody wanted to steal from the gallery, it would be too easy. And with the soaring prices of SA art at the moment...interested parties bring baklavas and meet at the ArtHeat offices.ArtHeat Classifieds:
Sculpture of three figures, with horns, available to trade for a new cell-phone.
Labels: SANG
posted by Robert Sloon at 4:26 PM
9 Comments:
oh no what happened, you used to be so pretty
would it be possible that you got mugged by underpaid SANG staff?
shouldn't that read "interested parties bring BALACLAVAS and meet at the ArtHeat offices," or has Artheat been going to too many Balkanology parties?
I think this lot of artists would more likely have baklavas, perhaps with coffee
Sorry to hear about your misfortune, Sloon.
Slim pickings. Must have been desperate to tackle a face like this. Where were the soft targets? What is wrong with SANG that they can't entice a stream of easy marks for the hungry ones to prey on? The absence of crowd has placed us local artists in the front lne.
Was the eye damage inflicted by fist, or with the cellphone? Is this the risk we run as eye workers? To have our tools vandalised, like the road workers on the n2 whose angle grinders were stolen. Are The Eye & The Mobile the tools of a contemporary artist? What about one's Tattoo kit, Prescription/Recreational/Inspirational Medication or Antabuze?
A successful strategy is to carry a spare old cellphone ( preferably small and swanky ) and an empty wallet (or a second wallet stuffed with Rhodesian notes). When attacked fling these objects to the ground some distance away, and run like hell.
But if you appear to be pulling a gun you may die.
Perhaps the strategy would work best when acccompanied by an "I am a pacifist, help yourself to my things, I also assert that property is theft, so please, relieve me of my burdens..."
this is what happpens when you wag your willy at Satan's ex-boss.
Sloon must learn Kung Fu or Art of Persuasion to defend himself at all time.
Sloon must keep himself together.
Sloon valuable.
sloon soon loon
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