In Miami for a few days holiday. Made some drawings of the beachfront hotels and the city rooftops.

Miami Art Museum were showing a Vik Muniz retrospective. I'd seen an example of his work before at LACMA. It is really inventive stuff the way he uses all sorts of object to make images. I have a lot more time for the works where he had created an original composition rather than using an existing photographic or art historical source. It really made me think about still life. I really want to get back do doing still lives again but I've not been happy with the results I've been getting. Before seeing the show I'd been thinking of making a still life based on accumulated clutter, making a virtue of something I find annoying to the point of being neurotic about it - worrying about the fact that everything is not neatly tidied away or fulfilling a purpose in its place.

I've got a photo somewhere of a bunch of kids toys that had been dumped on the street which some of the Muniz pieces brought to mind.