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The deluge has finally struck, after days of humidity building, and the rain is coming down in solid sheets, making a wonderful melodic percussion on my roof and windows. I tried to attach the umbrella to my video camera but […]

Blueprints Today have been on a Cyanotype Photographic Printing day at St Barnabas Press in Cambridge (http://www.stbarnabaspress.co.uk/_about.htm) led by David Chow. It was after a conversation with Derek at the beginning of the residency when we were talking about the […]

ART HISTORY: Really great trip to the Harvard archive/storage facility in Somerville, near Boston. My meeting with Christina Rosenberger was excellent. Our research interests on Martin are so different, but we had a lot of questions in common and some […]

A friend emailed and said ‘the quarry blast must be a terrible and beautiful experience’. It was. A sharp crack and then the rock fell away. The earth reverberated beneath our feet. Dust the colour of dusk light, peachy and […]

30/06/10 Left Edinburgh at 7am with a filthy hangover from sampling what must’ve been all of the local brews. The train journey to Manchester Airport passed quite quickly with the only activity being a man boarding at Preston insisting that […]

01/07/10 Slept very well and woke up to conversations I later learnt were with the city official sort of like a mayor or presidente. Got directions and a map to the Fresia Gardens and set off, wondering if the forecasts […]

01/07/10 continued So, installation complete, I get to check out the town and traverse up and down the main road and piazzas; along to Piazza Torino and back to Piazza Galimberti with some side street detours and finally decide a […]

01/07/10 continued The performer of the evening’s live art event is dressed as a black latex gimp and is getting the visitors to blow up yellow balloons (!) and write what they find anger in onto the balloon surface. I […]

I asked if i could post this image of Derek’s experimental work in CAD and if he would write something about the image/process….here it is……. “It is my normal practice to use Solidworks CAD software to design within fairly rigid […]

02/07/10 The morning is horrible and through all the sole, sudore, prosecco e birra I am dehydrated like a sundried tomato with a dull ache in my head. I eventually get up and shower and head out to the park […]

Back at the park the Sardinains translate some of their completed booklets to me and then we picnic on cheeses, bread, chilli and beer. There are 3 cheeses Olivier has brought; a hard cheese similar slightly to peccorino, a soft […]

03/07/10 I go to the train station and buy a return to Mondovì. It changes at Fossano and doesn’t take to long. The first train is a double decker with air con and I sit upstairs and video the journey […]

03/07/10 continued Back in Cuneo I go back to the house and shower and change. I drink Campari and soda in little bottles with the Sardinians which is not as nice as it sounds (the drink) and it leaves an […]

04/07/10 In the morning, I pack my stuff up and wrap the olive oil and olive paste up well in clothes and meet the Sardinians in the living room who are ready to leave for their daytrip and we say […]

04/07/10 continued At the airport there is time to kill so I test the €200 beauty products and check out duty free. I nearly buy some coffee sambuca before remembering that sambuca is only a good idea at the time […]

05/07/10 The morning is horrible and there is not enough snooze time. The transfer bus is scheduled for 06:15 and I grab a double espresso and wish there was time for the buffet breakfast which looks great. Antonio is at […]