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Week 12: Surfaces change with time.

The ageing processes tells a story. What is the story? I can see clouds in the striations, water in movement, sounds in the waves that take on a circular form.

Week 12:Magic Moments.

I just liked the way a piece of tracing paper sticks to the window and picks up the light. Having seen the performance piece on Monday, I am even more interested in the idea of the slightly obscure. It raises questions. The Rosenquist exhibition was also fascinating and inspiring. I’m still mulling but both really…

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Week 12: Little bits of blue.

Bits. spaces. Glimpse. Magic moments. Hope. To move forward, rather than drift, you need direction. Light at the end of the tunnel. A light in the woods. Unless like the moth and the candle or Icarus and the Sun You don’t do your research properly and you get burnt. Gaps between the trees. The path…

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Week 12: You say Artifact, I say Artefact. Artifact, Artefact….lets call the whole thing off.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/artefact American English spelling Artifact. Sociolinguistic Artifacts “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance. Link:https://youtu.be/q7a4z7zLKts Two words, one meaning. And you thought I was kidding. Link: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sociolinguistic+artifacts&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari Social Artefact Creating Cultural Artifacts that Build New Legacies | David Bailey…

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week 12: Artifacts

What is an artifact, Could I make one up? Andy Holden comes to mind it would be fun. Everyday objects become magical artifacts. Cool cucumber cutters. Gouda grail. Priceless pepper pots. Oh back to Stan lee again.:)

Week 11: V&A, Gertrude Jekyll, Watts, Lutyens and Liver Custard

Must check spellings. Know I’ve got liver custard right it’s ingrained on my memory just like Olafur Eliasson’s flashbulb message saying Utopia from a few years back at the Venice Biennale. “Magic moments” as Euan Uglow used to call them, happen in the oddest of places in the oddest of ways, but they do happen….

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