I’ll use the occasion of Fabian’s birthday to say thank you for all the inspiration and gifts I have enjoyed on this trip. In chronological order, thank you to: Sven, Iaan, Claude, Johan, Colin, Sonja, Pontus, Ivo, Rene and the rest of the Spiegelberger stiftung, Aritake, Aritake’s dad, Ludwig Museum and Picasso, Sara, Martin, Karl-Heinz, Nicola, Peter, Matt, Tom, Uta, Georgia, Elke, Pernilla, Fredrik, Siri (not the apple kind), the Pope (in graffiti form), Kentridge, Turner, Twombly, Susanne, Leon, Veronica, Volker, Dana, Anton, Louisa, Alexandra, Suzanne, two nameless people in Dingolfing, Hannah, anonymous follower from Sri Lanka, Sven (again), Julianne, Lisz, David, Andreas, Simon, Desire B., Cato, Scott, Roelie, Peter, Thomas, Pam, the two Oxford students who spoke to me about tradition, Milan and Fabian. And to the cities of London, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Munich (as always Munich), Dingolfing, Arzberg, Falkenstein, Berlin, Middle Aston, Oxford and Duffield.
And while we are on the topic of gifts; I was really struck by the following statistic that underpinned the
free lunch in London yesterday. Roughly a third of all produce is rejected from retail because of aesthetic reasons (wonky looking carrots and such). If we were able to channel only a quarter of this aesthetic waste, it would be enough to feed the 1 billion hungry people in the world! Currently the majority of these products end up in landfill.
To my American friends: Happy Thanksgiving.
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