• Becoming Memory

    This is a short clip of a recording made at Easter in 1982. It's part of a performance of a cantata, 'Jerusalem Joy,' which was performed at my mum's church. My mum is the main voice you can hear and along with her I can hear my 10 year old self singing (with a high pitched voice) in the chorus. As I listen, a whole raft of emotions and … Continue Reading

    Becoming Memory

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Becoming Memory

Becoming Memory

This is a short clip of a recording made at Easter in 1982. It’s part of a performance of a …
Fox Talbot's Glassware

Fox Talbot’s Glassware

I recently visited The Weston Library in Oxford to see the ‘Bright Sparks: Photography and the Talbot Archive’ exhibition which …
Goethean Observation: Diffuser II

Goethean Observation: Diffuser II

Thinking about the recent observation I did on the diffuser, I was picking through the words and was struck by …
Goethean Observation: Diffuser

Goethean Observation: Diffuser

After writing about the empty diffusers I found in  my late mum’s house, I’ve been wondering about how I might …
A Remembrance of Things We Never Have Known

A Remembrance of Things We Never Have Known

Following on from the shadow work I’ve been doing I decided to work in some colour. I suppose it would …
A Moment's Language

A Moment’s Language

I have long been meaning to work from some videos I made back in 2018, using a calligraphy brush and …
Take Me Home

Take Me Home

After we lost mum in September last year, I found some old audio cassettes in her attic, one of which …
Arrival/Departure

Arrival/Departure

It was almost 5 years ago in 2018 that I made these videos in a forest in Oxford and I’ve …
Diffusers

Diffusers

In the months since my mum passed away we have been emptying her house ready for sale – one of …
The file runs from left to right with the lower frequencies at the bottom and volume indicated through the brightness (the louder, the brighter). Zooming in, one can see different sounds, for example in the image below you can see my mum’s voice (bright at the bottom of the image) with the harmonics in layers above.

Grief

After my mum passed away in September I found some old cassettes in cupboards in her attic room and over …
My mum in costume

Mum

On Thursday, 29th September, my wonderful mum, Mary, passed away. She was 78 years old and had been diagnosed with …
Measuring the past

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

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

Entropy

My work has often involved an exploration of time, in particular, how we can best imagine a past moment as …
Alvida and the Magician's Cape

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

‘Missded’ 4 – Tokens

Having completed stitching the ‘Missded’ 4 canvas, I have now cut it up into tokens …
Patterns seeping

Patterns seeping

With my latest set of tokens (for ‘Missded’ 4) I wanted to work with a few of them and try …
Cut Paintings

Cut Paintings

I have some old paintings which have for many years been stored in a shed. I have nowhere else to …
'Missded' 4

‘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

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

Locks II

Following a post I wrote back in 2017 (Locks) I’ve been looking again at the idea of creating small works …