Working quite hard… I am trying to compact the hay ball to make it a more manageable item to roll through the streets of Liverpool on sunday morning. I am still welcoming more helpers but I do have the absolute […]
Being chosen as 'Blogger's Choice' by Stuart Mayes has made me feel rather fraudulent. Firstly because I haven't posted to the blog for ages and secondly because of his lovely comment about my 'up-beat analysis'. It may be up-beat and […]
So, two new pieces in the last week. Both seem to have taken months to do, and I'm not sure if either are actually any good. Still, they're done, I've done something, perhaps even kick started the thinking again, although […]
500 word limit defeated me there. Read the previous post before this one, if you will…. Anyway, here they are. Stills from a video filmed around a shelter I built in the woods years ago as an investigation into those […]
.. progress .. I am surprisingly tired out just from rolling and re-rolling the hayball before finally applying a thin layer of cow slurry (liquid pooh).. All in all I caused quite a stir in the industrial enclave where I […]
Have lately been thinking a lot about the notion of equality. This came out of a conversation I had with Liz Whitehead as part of our planning for the residency. For one thing she was describing to me the potential […]
LOOSE ENDS There is always a point in the lead up to the opening of a project where it feels like my hands are full of loose threads and i am constantly trying to find the ends and clear my […]
A frantically busy day today. This morning's Fourth Year class went OK, but was completely chaotic, with twigs and brown paper bags and ink and paint all over the place. It took me the whole of the first lesson to […]
I have been preoccupied with the Crafting Space commission but there has been movement on other fronts that draws on both that and other experiences that i will write about this coming week, with the intention of bringing this blog […]
