COBO CYAR EAT SPONGE CAKE
"Patience" by Malika Green. During my lockdown trip to Eddy Bowen's retreat in Sans Souci in 2021, I noticed that the cobos there always chose, when they had a choice, to perch on dead trees. It reminded me to wonder why his logo for the TT Film Festival years ago was a cobo. Weeks later at Las Cuevas I spotted them doing the same thing. Why? wondered my partner in crime, and the answer that struck me I passed on: Cobo cyar eat sponge cake. It reminded me of an anecdote an architect once told me. He had designed a house on a large plot of hilly forested land on which stood a beautiful poui tree. Or maybe it was an immortelle, I can’t remember the precise species, just that it was a beautiful flowering tree. So he designed this house in such a way that it would have a view of, and be seen against the background of the tree. Perhaps the driveway would be flecked with yellow splashes. "Yellow Flower Road" by Kim Johnson. And the first thing the crew hired to constr...