published today
17.7.17
simply because the balance of
these numbers delights me
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a month of glorious collaborations – from a secret pursuit
to a snailmailart project with my mentor, life works perfectly
working as the artists’ group OffDuty:
rubber stamp cutlery print from Mog
rubber stamp leaf print from Meg
seeing things is one of my favourite pursuits:
saw a man walk out of a brick wall. . .
turned out to be a trompe l’oeil door
reflections in the pond in a pot in the garden
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and here see time passing by the riverside
opposite Spike Island Print Studios (Bristol)
where coincidentally we have just completed
Press Play, a course for artists
to examine their practice within a group,
over a year, with our wonderful tutor
who made us celebratory communication cakes
for our last session together
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
in the nature of mind
visit the website of
Balanced View
our next open meeting (Bristol)
will be on Sunday 30th (change from 23rd) July 11.30-12.30
let me know if you would like to meet there
An Artists’s Place (1995) restored programmes
radio re/treats
from The BBC World Service Digital Archive Project
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Russell Brand Yanis Varoufakis Interview
1hr 20mn (with thanks to Jenny Wren)
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Manchester international Festival
seems a remarkable event with so many innovative strands –
from the wonderful input of Jeremy Deller celebrating people –
a hundred and sixty folk from all walks of life paraded on a catwalk in Piccadilly Gardens
to celebrate the people of the city for the opening event . . .
(see What is the City But the People? link to Guardian article)
. . .to the brilliantly inclusive Festival In My House –
again inclusively embracing the extraordinary people of the city
A WORK IN PROGRESS:
collaged heads
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you might enjoy the documentary about John Berger,
(we value you still)
by his old friend Tilda Swinton
– beautiful –
and talking of collaboration, something close to my heart
is a snailmail project with my mentor John Bently
who sent me an envelope full of images
what to do?
the aha dawned whilst I was not thinking –
a shrine to be made from Amazon packaging
reciprocating with a people & car image: on the road in Australia, me and the guys circa 1985
affixing a winged creature print of John’s
next to overprinting on the cardboard folder 
and so the dance begins. . .
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the teaparty we held celebrating
the Solstice & the new courtyard
was a delight
sharing old friends with new friends
for visiting
do call again