Continuing Work

In his excellent book, 'The Past is a Foreign Country', David Lowenthal writes:"Among the Swahili, the deceased who remain alive

I am not, at least as far as I’m aware, a sculptor, but I think that what I’m striving to

Whilst on a trip to Paris with Monika, we paid a visit to two cemeteries; one, the cemetery at Montmartre,

When one of the ‘tokens’ is put in a frame, it becomes a thing in its own right; a fragment still, but

I discovered Stephen Hedges about a year ago whilst researching my great-great-great-grandfather Richard Hedges (1808-1882). The two of them were

I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favourite gods.Roads go on While we forget, and

On the first day of this month, I travelled to Paris on Eurostar and met my girlfriend Monika at the

Trees - Woods and Western Civilisation by Richard Hayman"...the forest provides the setting for chance encounters that take the protagonists

When you're a father, separated from your children a few days each week, the things you do with your children

Reading Clive James' Poetry Notebook, I find myself a little better prepared to tackle the task of writing a poem;

Each string (in what I have so far called the 'net') represents in its 'cut end' the end of a

The backgrounds of these postcards have become of great interest to me in as far as they help elicit a

Following on from the completion of my text map (which I'm thinking of as a map of an individual rather

Taken from Artefact - a website concerning Contemporary Art and Archaeology. I'm making this initial visit to the chapel a

Below are two portraits, each of a soldier about to leave home to fight in what we now know as

If you visit the Westgate Library in Oxford, and make your way to the second floor, to the centre for

In a session today on my MA in Social Sculpture, we considered the following three words: Hidden, Ignored, Denied. What

I've never before considered myself a fan of Chinese art but there have been times (most recently in the British

The images below show the three stages (so far completed) of the first in a series of works entitled "Missded".

I've been looking for a way of converting GPS data to midi as part of a project based on a

Why are Australian 50 cent pieces the size of dinner plates and 20 cent pieces like saucers? Especially when 2

"What, then, is this material world? Of what does it consist?"So asks Tim Ingold, in his book, Being Alive, Essays

With my GPS, I traced the route we know the Gentleman's Servant took across Magdalen Bridge up into modern day

I'd never been to the National Archives and had only ever seen it on TV, on Who Do You Think

After my research in the National Archives, I took the document I'd discovered (the Surgeon's Journal from teh voyage of

Having completed the stitching for ‘”Missded’ 2″, I’ve now cut it up to create the ‘tokens’ shown below.

On 26th April I visited the battlefields and sites of Verdun. The name, like that of the Somme and Ypres,

Today I walked the second walk in this series and made the following list of additional words:engines roarsirencigarettesightseeing bussunglassesman in

Below is a typical, early 20th century studio portrait. The subject - a boy - sits on a prop. Behind

I've discussed previously, three extracts from newspapers in which a moment of silence serves to amplify all that happened before