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An Englishman in New York

My good friend Justine's partner Kevin Osmond is a hugely talented sculptor.

He has a solo show on at the Davidson Contemporary Gallery on Fifth Avenue, NYC, until 15 September. He makes the most amazingly beautiful and intricate pieces from everyday objects: the piece pictured is made from hundreds of chopsticks. Ginger and I came away from his last London show longing for more space to accommodate for one of his vapour trails or fabulous and covetable works on paper.

If you find yourself in Manhattan be sure to check it out!

(Artwork by Kevin Osmond photographed by Mali)

London bubble

I paid a last minute visit to the Anthony Gormley Blind Light exhibit at the Hayward Gallery this afternoon. Very cool. Blind Light itself - essentially a 'cloud' in a glass room - is unnervingly disorientating. The 'fog' was so thick I could see the condensation apparently forming on my eye balls. Weird. My favourite pieces, though, were a series of works on paper: small, monochrome and very spare but so beautiful.

On my way home I was walking past Borough Market at my usual breakneck speed when I half-heard someone calling my name and turned to see one of my closest friends with her little boy. Apart from the 'what-are-the-chances...' grin of bumping into pal in town, it brought me up short: I was so firmly enveloped in my London Bubble that I'd walked straight past. It wasn't that I didn't recognised them - I didn't even see them.  In such a packed city it becomes scarily easy to edit out the people and just admire the view.

What a view though.