It shows how the world is full of magic, of possibilities, not just by music and expression, but by the symbolism that we can place in something, and make it become important. Nina Simone’s Gum reveals how something seemingly insignificant and disposable can form beautiful connections between people. I want to build this big stone replica of the gum and place it in the middle of a water feature so that the bears and monkeys can play on it.

Bu değer vermenin insanlar arasında paylaşılabilen, o nesnenin zamanla bir nevi "müritler" oluşturmasına olanak sağlayan toplumsal bir hadiseye dönüşmesi Nina Simone's Gum'ın da temel meselelerinden birisi. Nick Cave, Ellis’s close friend and the curator of that year’s Meltdown, was still trying to take in what he had just witnessed, when he noticed a familiar figure “crawling up on to the stage, looking possessed and heading for the Steinway”. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave’s Meltdown Festival. This book follows not only the journey of the gum but also shows the various inspirations for artists and performers and also some of Warren’s life. A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best .

OCH det fina i hur ett litet ting som ett tuggummi kan skapa sådana känslor hos alla som är i närheten av det. A beautiful, haunting quasi-memoir about the 57-year-old's early life growing up in southeastern Australia and his years spent busking across Europe in the 1980s, as well as one particular, transcendent night that changed the course of his life.

Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact. And then she said it would make a good connections text if the theme was how fame inspires people do weird things. I'm not a dedicated fan of either the Bad Seeds or Nina Simone, but with the premise it's got I couldn't not read it. Nina Simone‘s Gum - and the way Warren collects, cares for and curates it - as a metaphor for the devotion that fanatics feel for the “divine relic”, provides a centre point to the story of Ellis’s life and connection with music and “things”.On stage, his extravagantly expressive playing is something to behold, all flailing arms and furrowed brow, his bow held aloft like a matador’s sword before being drawn across the strings of his amped-up violin. The pair met in 1993 and have been through a lot together since, including coming off heroin at around the same time – “I don’t talk about it,” says Ellis, “because it’s the least interesting aspect of anything about my life. A captivating, often moving memoir - a tribute to the power of great art wrapped in an exploration of the minutiae gathered in the itinerant life of the nomadic musician. Yolda bulduğumuz şekli güzel bir taş bazen uğur nesnesi oluyor bizim için ve aylarca cebimizde dolaşıyor, çocukken taktığımız künye annemizin çekmecesinde sonraki nesillere aktarılmayı bekleyen bir andaca dönüşüyor, başka zaman görsek dikkatimizi dahi çekmeyecek nesneler arkadaşlarımızın elinde, onların sözleriyle karşımıza çıkınca kutsal emanetler gibi değer kazanıyor birden. Some of those things, other than the gum, are shared here in a beautiful, simple, yet profound manner.