It's been a big week in art ... with Jim Pavlidis

‘‘If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.’’ So goes the popular proverb, but what if you realised that in trying, trying, trying again you’re simply beating, beating, beating your head against a wall?

Brilliant South African artist William Kentridge was once an aspiring actor before ‘‘I was fortunate to discover at a theatre school that I was so bad an actor … I was reduced to an artist.’’

With a month of the footy season gone and the cold weather coming, the lay of the 2018 football land is being revealed and it’s not pretty for Demons fans, who spent the pre-season in the unusual position of being touted as serious flag contenders.

The team is now 2-2. It’s often said that hope springs eternal in the human breast, however a couple more lame efforts by Simon Goodwin’s team would see the spring turn into rivers of tears.