Millicent Place
@Millicent_Place

Receptionist @ Cost Gallery

Hold a penny between your finger and thumb

October 12th - November 15th 2017

Sid and Jim are an artist duo based in London. They are founders of The SketchUp Residency, Dollspace Gallery and the podcast Artists and Friends. Recent projects include Pre-Sliced Orange Segments, Light Eye Mind, London, A Show About The Show, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester and Is this it?, serf, Leeds.		  
Exhibition by Sid and Jim >
Accompanying text by @rosalindduguid

I couldn’t sleep n I was worried so I googled
“how to make your brain work to its fullest capacity”

Pages: About 2,900,000 results (0.75 seconds)

I don’t know how many images the search produced because google doesn’t tell u that anymore

120 Ways
10 Steps (with pictures)
9 Ways
3 Simple but effective methods

one suggestion was “get enough sleep”
another was “optimize your gut flora”
this sounds beautiful, tho I know it is probably not

I wonder how many times it says “sleep” on all of the twomillionninehundredthousand pages?

People also ask:
How can I use more of my brain capacity?
How can I increase my brain power?
How can I use my brain?
How do I unlock my hidden power?
(To really unlock your mind power, to break down the walls of your ego, you need to put yourself in a vulnerable position and get hung out to dry with no safety net. Then pick yourself up.)

how come there’s so much advice out there n I still can’t do it all at once

im gonna be all of these ppl for all of those ppl
im gonna do it
im gonna do it
I swear to God IM GOING TO DO IT RIGHT NOW.

 when my brain is working at its fullest capacity it will be a stone n then it will be very heavy but it will only know the things that cannot be taught. It will be so wise, not book-smart, really wise with a long white beard and a monocle and why is my brain an upper-class old man?

I undressed for u n my mind got bigger but it got softer
I undressed for u n ur face made me lose a little bit of everything
if you want ur brain to work at its fullest capacity don’t undress

 when my brain is working at its fullest capacity it will look like a huge field in there grass n sky will stretch out in my skull forever
n no one will even know
when my brain is working at its fullest capacity I will be happy

look at the way I want to be so clever but I cannot because google’s always tryna make me buy things
look at the way I want to be so clever but I cannot because someone knows what I’m gonna do next
look at the way I want to be so clever but I cannot because the space behind the screen is just too big

 when my brain is working at its fullest capacity, inside there will be no Big Picture and no soft focus

when my brain is working at its fullest capacity I will sleep n it will be everything I’d dreamt it would be

Rosalind Duguid @rosalindduguid

Rosalind Duguid is an artist and writer based in London. She has a foundation diploma in Fine Art from Kingston University and is currently working as editorial assistant at Elephant Magazine.
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