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Red Roses
This week has seen the publication of a book I have been working on, with Verity Holloway and Boudicca Press, for nearly two years. Disturbing the Body is an anthology of women’s writing about their bodies – of times when […]
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The moon
At the end of July there was a full moon. There will be another at the end of this month. Checking my diary it’s a full moon tomorrow, a full 28 days have passed. July’s full moon was to be […]
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Shoresearch Survey
Sussex Wildlife Trust is one of the organisations to routinely survey the beaches along the coast of Sussex. Involving volunteers, it makes for a great afternoon of legitimately staring into rockpools. Looking with a guide and with a clipboard to […]
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One year on
One year from starting this blog and I have been nudged into remembering events which led to it. Three years ago I was diving in Spanish waters, swimming with eagle rays and spotting seahorses. Three years ago I found a […]
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Six come down from Farnham
Earlier in the year I had a very lovely email from someone I’ve connected with on Twitter: “..Your work really resonates with a group that I am working with currently. We are keen to make some performative work. We have been thinking of […]
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Summer solstice and half the year has passed
Logging in today and I am surprised how much time it has been. I last wrote on the Winter Solstice. This week heralded the Summer Solstice. Half a year has passed. Six months of intermittent visits to the sea, of […]
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Endings and transitions
Winter solstice. The shortest day of the year. From here on in days begin to stretch again, light returns. Without the dark there is no light, they say. It was an unremarkable day otherwise, not especially cold or calm, not […]
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Housekeeping at high tide
Waves drag at the shingle then push it back up the beach. Housekeeping, rearranging the shore line. Everything moves and shifts yet (almost) nothing changes. Lace built of water hangs in the air. Delicate and fleeting. Structures so easily fallen through […]
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All in the detail – light
Re-imagining objects collected from recent beach walks I’m transfixed by the translucence of things. Lit from below, I can see through shells. New layers of surface and texture emerge, bringing new landscapes, perhaps the moon? Photographed closely I can see […]
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Sea creatures
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Crabby bodies
From one crabby body to another. Breathing new life into bits of crab chewed and discarded by herring gulls. A joyful playful studio space. Heart: Skull: Lungs: Intestines: Dancing Legs/Pointing Fingers: Flamingo:
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Playing with light
Experimenting with a light box – silhouettes of dancing egg cases and holed stones.