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Recovery and Convalescence…
A few things have joined up in my head this week. I feel the need to write them down to make sense of them. First of all, some background information: I am four weeks into my recovery from total knee […]
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A kickstart for my brain…
The holiday is over. I had my total knee replacement on 27th May. Just over three weeks ago. It was more brutal than I expected, so I only feel now that I can emerge into the world and start looking […]
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Letting go…
I’ve sunk down through Out of Sorts, nestled into my grief, and given the unsettling sadness a big hug like an old friend. I have found another gear that I didn’t know existed. In this extra month between the unsuccessful […]
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Out of Sorts…
Well… the surgery was cancelled at the last minute, (I won’t bore you with the details) so I am now in a state of limbo. All that preparation at home and in the studio now has me in a sort […]
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Language and Thought…
I’m experiencing a natural slowing down at the moment. Remember the slowing down that happened during that first covid lockdown? When we all stayed home and had time to appreciate what we had (those who did have a home, and […]
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Walking with Sticks…
It’s been a while since I posted, a bigger gap than usual, so I felt the need to go back a few posts to see what I said, and where I was up to… Weirdly, or maybe not so weirdly, […]
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The woods are only in my head…
After a time thinking about the materials, and how they relate to each other, and how it affects my making, I find myself again thinking about concept, and metaphor. I found this paragraph in A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari […]
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Layers and lines…
Layers and lines From a purely visual, aesthetic standpoint I’m happy with how the work looks. I like the forms and lines, the wrapped lines and the drawn lines. I like the grouping and the spacing. I like the soft, […]
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Being noisy…
The crisis of confidence is dissipating, and now I have actually hung it in the gallery I am quite pleased with how it all relates. It was an awkward, bitty place to install work, windows and doors, pillars and other […]
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Hope from unexpected places…
I had resigned myself to the fact there was too much else going on in my life to actually start making anything new. But it seems that my back-burner of a brain had other ideas… I’ve been doing the course […]
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Brain clearing…
It would be nice to think, wouldn’t it, that an art-life carries on regardless? But it doesn’t. The art-brain continues , but very much on the back-burner, essentials only, when other things get in the way. The building work started […]
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Input/Output
Input/Output The last few weeks it seems to me there’s been far too much input, and very little output. I am one step closer to the knee replacement, but I am still waiting to hear a date, but it could […]