Crackpot Ideas. Inspired by the ability of conspiracy theorists to build their conviction based on the accumulation of hit and miss occurrence. And also by a humoured cynicism directed at the trend of rubbish as found object art. I started collecting pots with cracks in them. The project was intended as a kind of library of all the genius ideas I have that nobody knows about. So I wanted to start a collection of pots. A collection of broken ideas. The ones that get shelved or discarded. To illustrate the fact that ideas get left behind all the time. The pots as stand-ins for all the ideas that didn’t make it, the un-chosen ones. Intrigued by the way we can choose to make something seem extraordinary or decide to see things as the actions of chance. The cracked pots were going to be displayed on shelves. To show that they had been ideas, valued or not. Works of art can become keys to access something. But it proves and disproves nothing. I talked myself out of this project, and cast aside the cracked pots idea after only collecting 5. I decided it was an unsuccessful attempt at a joke. That now sits in an unfinished state on a shelf, waiting for