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Grief
After my mum passed away in September I found some old cassettes in cupboards in her attic room and over …
Mum
On Thursday, 29th September, my wonderful mum, Mary, passed away. She was 78 years old and had been diagnosed with …
Measuring the past
“We have been living this same moment ever since we were conceived. It is memory, and to some extent sleep, …
Disordered Time
In my last post I talked about entropy, in particular with reference to a book I’ve recently re-read by Carlo …
Entropy
My work has often involved an exploration of time, in particular, how we can best imagine a past moment as …
Wicked Magician, Fly
For many years I’ve had a song in my head, the lyrics for which I’ve always remembered as being: The …
The Quanta of History
I have just finished reading Carlo Rovelli’s ‘The Order of Time’ which, as well as being a fantastic read, has …
Empathy Forward
Much of my work over the past however many years has been about empathy and how we can empathise with …
The Natural World of 978
I’ve written before about this postcard. When I bought it n 1978 I was 7 years old and, in many …
The Gone Forest
Two years ago I shot some video at Shotover Country Park (see ‘Writing Shadows’) and finally, this weekend, I had …
Empathy/Exchange: 668 grams
This follows on from my last post – Goethean Observation: Pilgrims of the Wild, 1935. I made this observation after …
Goethean Observation: Pilgrims of the Wild, 1935
As with observations of this type, the text is written almost as a stream-of-consciousness, as a result of which there …
Nazareth O
As part of my family history research (as described in my previous post), I chanced upon a name which leapt …
Several Johns and St. Thomas
I’ve recently returned to researching my family tree – something I’ve been doing on and off since 2007, and have been …
Raspberry
Continuing with my research, I’ve gone back a few years to some work I did on World War I, specifically …
Tokens and Shadows
A while ago I made some sketches at Shotover Wood, tracing shadows with ink. Thinking back to these and with …
Patterns Seeping (II)
Following on from a previous blog (‘Patterns Seeping’) I’ve been working on a few preliminary sketches using some fabric I …
‘Missded’ 4 – Tokens
Having completed stitching the ‘Missded’ 4 canvas, I have now cut it up into tokens …
Patterns seeping
With my latest set of tokens (for ‘Missded’ 4) I wanted to work with a few of them and try …
Cut Paintings
I have some old paintings which have for many years been stored in a shed. I have nowhere else to …
‘Missded’ 4
I’ve finally finished stitching the fourth in the ‘Missded’ series of stitched works which I began some time ago. The …
Locks III
Progressing the images from my previous post, I’ve started to arrive at something more akin to what I had in mind …
Locks II
Following a post I wrote back in 2017 (Locks) I’ve been looking again at the idea of creating small works …
‘Missded’ 2 – Tokens
Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below …
My Son’s Drawings II
I’ve written before about how I find inspiration in my young son’s drawings, or in how he draws. He drew …
‘Missded’ 2
I recently completed the third (although titled as the second) in my series of stitched works based on drawings completed …
‘Missded’ 3 – Tokens
Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 3″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below …
‘Missded’ 3
I’ve finally completed another of the stitched works – “‘Missded’ 3”. Below is the original drawing made by me and …
‘Missded’ 1 – A Framed Token
When one of the ‘tokens’ is put in a frame, it becomes a thing in its own right; a fragment still, but …
Morning Has Broken
Following on from my last post, I’ve now completed all the tokens along with another piece comprising some of them …
Tokens of absence
A few months ago I visited the Foundling Hospital in London, established in 1739 to receive and care for abandoned children …
‘Missded’ 1, stitched
The stitched versions of my son’s drawings are objects which, in contrast to the quickly made drawings on which they’re …