Being born in 1979 always felt like being on the fringe, it was the fall of retro, death of the mustache (well not for for my dad, but he was never one for following trends) before fluoro was an accepted pantone and Bonnie Tyler was still holding out for a hero; the 80's was yet to be invented.

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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has figured it out perfectly - sell your work as relatively low art (mass produced plastic figurines & phone caddies) in the East but in the West market your work as high art ("My Lonesome Cowboy" (1998), a sculpture of a masturbating boy, sold for $15.2 million at a Sotheby's auction).

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muttered Aristotle under his breath.

Has anyone ever said to you while standing on the edge of a lake looking at snow capped mountains as the sun sets, "wow, that looks like a painting!" and you think 'wait a minute, no the painting looks like nature!' When did art become grander than reality? So as I walked into Rothko at the Tate, I thought what is Mark imitating, a rusted wall with a square painted on it, marking the spot for a wreaking ball to demolition, or the decay caused by oxidation?

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