Instead of bluebells.

Photos of bluebells didn't turn out well - just not carpety enough, so here is a replacement embellishment. I give you

'Spine.'

As great a work of art as is to be seen anywhere IMO.

The beginnings of a discussion on Art and Beauty with an artist friend had to be abandonned because we were moving two shelves of heavy oversized art books from my shop to her house down the road and I was out of breath. She was buying the books for the new Art Centre but rejected a book of pics of Franko B on the grounds that the Centre is dedicated to Beauty and FB is not beautiful( this isn't necessarily her view but the view of the voting majority.) Humph! Sophie met Franko and says a more gentle, delightful soul you could not hope to find. If he feels that the only way he can express his perspectives on life is by chaining himself naked in a cellar and inviting the audience to come down one at a time to ask him questions and watch him bloodletting (all very hygienically I belive) then who are we to call that ugly?

Discuss.

Quotes from Wikki. "His work focuses on the visceral. Franko uses his own blood as a medium. He makes his body into a canvas in an attempt to portray "the pain, the love, the hate, the loss, the power and the fears of the human condition"."