Aka, the VE Day painting, early iteration. Because this will primarily appear as a moving image, I wanted lots of bright colours, hints of flags, and some wartime photos which are mostly my own family. The white areas will shortly … Continue reading You’ll need sunglasses for this one
This is the title of a forthcoming collection of poetry by Amanda Huggins, one of whose included poems forms the textual background of a painting made for Personal Practice. She loved the painting and asked if she could use it … Continue reading ‘Talk to me about when we were perfect’
27th January. On the morning before completing exercise 4.0, I encountered two real world liminals or transitions. The first at the vet’s where I was making a routine appointment for my cat’s boosters, and the second a little later along … Continue reading Option 4, Ex 4.0.2, liminality, unknowing
According to Wikipedia, Ekphrasis is the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, while the Poetry Foundation describes it as, ‘a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the … Continue reading Response to the poem Single Shot by Tom Sheehan
Crazy Diamond. I’m not a good reader of poetry, I do far better if I hear it read, but this one – From Crazy Diamond to Borrowed Light by Oonah Joslin – made me think because of her comment about how it came about. She tells me it was something her mentor said when she was struggling to believe in herself as a poet; he told her that diamonds don’t shine on their own, they borrow light from those who do. Turning the Pink Floyd reference on its head, the imagery that came from this, finding your own light instead of reflecting that … Continue reading Crazy Diamond
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