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Beeding Bear Hunt

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

No, America, don’t start packing your rifles and booking flights. For a start, we barely have a bus service, never mind an airport; and for a next, these are fluffy, woolly, bedtime buddies with no teeth. I’m a bit late getting this up on the wall due to knowing nothing about the charity trail until a couple of hours ago. Not art, though, is it? Admittedly not, more physics really, because that’s what underpins most things. But when an augmented reality teddy bear halfway up the side of a building is called for, a science lesson isn’t really going to … Continue reading Beeding Bear Hunt

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If you can’t find a gallery that fits …

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

You just have to build your own! The problem with augmented art is it needs connectivity or it isn’t going to be augmented, and while I make the paintings as standalone as possible, I add the AR as a way for it to speak in a different voice. So it’s a bit like turning up to a ‘do’ in your best frock but without the accessories. Sort of. Locally, there’s barely a phone signal anywhere, and finding a venue with – ok just finding a venue and never mind one with wifi – is well nigh impossible. Solution? A virtual … Continue reading If you can’t find a gallery that fits …

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Probably my best ever photo

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

22nd November. Taken a few days ago and since it’s attracted a certain amount of attention on social media, I’m posting it here for the sake of provenance. This is a footpath locally running alongside a bypass but you’d never know it from this view. There is deeply mulched ground on either side that fills up and overflows onto the path in heavy rain. The trees are coppiced from time to time, but otherwise left to be themselves. That day, I was stymied by the flood, not having the right footwear to get through it and stay dry; the photo … Continue reading Probably my best ever photo