Artist Book II

“It should have a glossy sheen to the surface…with a velvety texture…It’s a perfectionist thing that makes you go, ‘yeah that’s good, but how can we work on it?’…Ripe…Ripe for roasting… You need to have a bit of an obsessive compulsive gene… You’re doing it hundreds of times every day… So to get satisfaction out of it, you need to have the kind of personality that is never satisfied…Aromatic…Flavour…It’s better to have a good hard pack in a slightly coarser ground…” Text from ‘Coffee Culture’ by Kathleen Carmody, April 20, 2004. The Sun-Herald.