The end of the u-bend
From Art
posted on January 10th, 2013

Feels like the end of an era, or at least completing a weird personal journey: I’m done publishing loo photos. From Jan 1st 2010 to New Year’s Eve just gone, every new loo I went in (for whatever reason) was photographed, catalogued and published to Twitter and I still have no idea why. What started as a fun, daft project, quickly became a compulsion and in year three began to weigh like a burden.

Now, with no need to publish, it’s actually tough to stop myself taking the photos anyway. I admit both new loos I’ve been inside in 2013 are captured in my iphone. Perhaps deleting them will be the final closure on the project.

Anyway, today I finished constructing the final annual A YEAR IN LOO PRINT, collecting my 72 favourites from #loo2012. The prints were a spur of the moment idea that have become disconcertingly popular. Turns out there’s a nuts market out there for pictures of toilets and the first one sold out (an edition of 253) in a month. Then last year’s print would’ve sold out too, except for the whole box I lost (!) and 10 prints ruined when some guy leaned on them on the merch desk, with a camcorder (!!).

So here’s the new one. I have no idea if you still have appetite for toilet photos but this one is all British, slightly more greenish than previous prints and includes the original inspiration for the loo project, Gypo & Jo’s legendary loo on the Isle Of Man. It also features the first human; a cameo appearance from the mighty Jim Bob. You can order it in the SHOP.

Even now I’m not entirely done with loos: I’m currently running this daily Tumblr feed of loos in films and on TV. But obviously that’s not so personal and I feel significantly less invested.

 

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