Great (July)

“Make America the Greatest Show on Earth Again!” There’s the Great Vanishing Icecap! Now it’s here, now it’s oops, ladies and gentlemen. The White House highwire staff act. Look! No net. And introducing your favourite clowns, The Not Twins! “He’s a snowflake.” “He is not a snowflake.” You’ll roll in the aisles at their endless patter, all coming from the same person. “Would.” “Wouldn’t.” “Would.” “Wouldn’t.” Thirteen Melanias pop-up from a Fourth July cake decorated in red, white, and blue icing: “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the great American public!” Exit, pursued by a Russian Bear.

Great (January)

Wouldn’t it be great to make a film detailing every slow colour of the spectrum in objects? To devise a play that heals the wound? To construct symphonies using 100 iphones as instruments? To invent new artforms that only work using solar? To blow glass flowers of all Australian species? To draw such drawings as would distract people, permanently, from their pompous inclination to destroy? To sing a song so amazing everyone forgets to applaud, the silence at the end is so big? To tie together the garden with Sze wool? To complete the universally agreed definitive text on January?