21/9/14 Once upon a time I was a writer and before I had a heart attack in 2002, I would have written about WitCH just as I wrote about Medusa another of my favourite images.. the goddess of life and […]
28/914 ‘We always went in’ Witch is the archetype type not controlled by/owned by/used by ptrky. Magical outsider, No, not outsider, but an idea in its community with its ways, it’s words. Community of all genders, LGBTI community, witches and […]
Marion and I met yesterday. https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/sleep-drunk-i-dance We ritualised this occasion. We hugged. We both sat, in turn, with tissue wrappings on our laps. Our fingertips smoothed, found the creases, lifted the flaps, searched and exposed the contents slowly. We gazed […]
Back at Cuckoo Farm. I have spent the last couple of weeks thinking about the look of the fish farms and am trying out a more aestheticised version this weekend. Moving away from making the pieces purely functional will hopefully […]
Written on 08/09/2014 Outside of this collaboration I am currently involved in the early stages of a transmedia project and to find out more about this multiplatform way of working and storytelling, I attended a Learn Do Share event in […]
Post written on 1/09/2014 In between our official scheduled meetings, Mike and I will be doing our research and keeping in touch online. After the first meeting he shared with me some existing examples of digital technology used for creative […]
Although I did send in a proposal for something recently ( which I don’t think I got as I haven’t heard anything back) I think I’m going to have to put a hold on applying for stuff for a bit, […]
Images show broken “mouth” opening left on the ground at the site of Pol 21 on Greenham Common former airbase, and a view of the site of what remains of the overground structures of Pol21 from a distance. After struggling […]
Kind of at the last minute, I got an email about my ‘Concrete Tower turned Bug Hotel’ at Creekside Discovery Centre, to the effect of: it hasn’t been turned into a bug hotel yet, sorry… something to do with volunteers […]
Thesis writing continues… The chapter and chapter sections are in place and have notes and references that are becoming sentences (or half sentences) that are becoming paragraphs, and are being moved around, expanded and deleted. I’ve not updated much about […]
I’ve heard artists say they don’t want to be ‘over stimulated’ but I wonder if anyone other than me feels ‘over connected?’. Now, I am into modern technology and the way it can make things easier for everyone so that […]
One of my favourite walks at the moment is along the coastline to Reculver, and over the past couple of months I have been able to build up a small series of digital drawings done in Reculver Country Park. These […]
An intense, overwhelming summer, good and bad, in which being has been enough, no time or energy to blog. I’ve missed my a-n fellow bloggers and friends, the support and conversation I get here, so I’m back after almost 6 […]
This weekend’s Manchester Contemporary art fair has got more galleries and artists than ever, and it’s in a new venue, too. Chris Sharratt reports.
