Christmas has arrived early.

It is Sunday and I received an email from one of my favourite shops in all the the world I drift in to a world of brightly coloured candied fruit, tea, chocolate, marzipan and plum pudding. The smells I imagine take me back to childhood, a lovely little utopian moment. To think F & M…

Tiny Owl Found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas, Synergistic serendipity?

The tiny owl discovered inside the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.— Read on news.artnet.com/art-world/marcel-dzama-owl-1925394 Welcome Rocky – I think I’ve found something. I search owl in my notes and discover a new link. knOWLedge. When all things com together and feel like they are meant to be, could that be synergistic serendipity? Little owl call click…

People pirates and belief.

After reading a frends FB post this morning I started to juggle some thoughts. She says that it is time for men to accept men, and include those who want to be other than a manly man eg a man in a dress with a full beard is still labelled” man”. She goes on to…

Painters and politics.

Pablo Picasso, Mark Bradford, Vincent Van Gogh, Edwardo Manet and Don. Each painter responded to a ”crisis” situation and produced a painting to reflect their feelings about their chosen subject. Some times their subject matter is historical some times it is current some times it is political, but it is always personal, works as defined…

Week 33:Finalising our publication.

We met at the Tate Modern. I took the boat. The reception is good on board, they have a cafe and I dont have to think about traffic. I arrived at the Tate and found my launch team on the second floor splayed accross the sofas deep in project development, reflecting on and evaluating our…

Week 33:launch expert research.

JM-currently on gardening leave-he managed to have a quick chat in between childcare and development meetings: Fab Ideas, basically if our product, our art book is about active passive, think what we could use to enforce that, what would inspire and conjure those thoughts or images. 1- Stick to our relevant pathway-fine art-sculpture-poetry-painting-photography-words- the tools…

Week 33: Launch research.

I have being doing some some research in to how you launch a publication and if that would relate in anyway to the launch of our artbook. First thing is that we need an angle – or none if we go the Hanna ”this is not Art” route. Why are we producing our Artbook, are…