Tuesday 31 May 2011

⎰⎱ one add one

the ceramicist Madelaine Murphy
gave me this ....

a beautiful ceramic shrine
barely eight centrimetres high:
what do you put in a shrine?
I started to think about what I love:
things I hold dear:
and started to photograph them:
then I printed them really really small:
 printed some ribbon with qualities that aspire:
 and sent a photo of it, back to Madelaine:
now it's mine to keep:
the goddess of small things:

Monday 30 May 2011

■▹◎ multi faceted

my town is full of interesting and creative people:
it's fascinating to see how they work:
I first met Brian Parker when he was 
dancing as part of an interactive exhibition:
he told me about his passion 
for painting and his search for the
'perfect line':

the way I see it
his latest exhibition at Studio Eleven :

 
the four seasons:
tetraptych of pattern and shade:
local scenes made graphic:
quirky screen prints:
tactile shaped ceramics:
photogramancy
layered abstract acrylics:

does this man ever stand still?
eclectic and considered:
one to watch:
one to go see:

Saturday 28 May 2011

{} dem bones

quite some years ago 
I had a back problem:
it meant I couldn't wear backless shoes
or sit cross legged for years:
a herniated disc:
it's painful and boring:
and has returned:
just when I have lots of brilliant
things to be part of:
yoga is helping:
but restless sleep is zzzz

Sunday 22 May 2011

⚃⚃ roll the dice

do you ever get times
when you're just not feeling it?
it's bubbling under there
somewhere
but you're just not ready
yet:
you know when it does come
you will be 
on it
and your feet won't touch the ground
you'll pile on extra
with cherries on the top:
{until then I'll watch clouds in silence}
photographed by me:

Wednesday 18 May 2011

『[‖/ brush up on my field work

new exhibition at the Tap gallery until 4th June:
Fields
curated by Lee Sullivan
explores the possibilities of the visual field:
{scale is not apparent in these images
so I'll start with the smaller pieces}
orion
by Lee Sullivan:
brutal edifices made simple
with determined strokes:
how I learnt to stop worrying and make a print
by Lee Sullivan:
fragile prints remembering ruins,
real and imagined afterworlds:
building sites in green and blue:
salt lake, carbon class
by Claire Barnett:
crystal folded forms transform the 
two dimensional to three:
crystallised:
echo park:
a new landscape constructed:
{details}
reconstructed from found images:
keira
now these are big:
{David always does big}
free and flowing:
like satellite images of unseen routes:
kev
vast trails over hidden paths:
 maps in the desert
or under the sea:
layer on linear layer:
otherworldly:

go see for yourself:

Monday 9 May 2011

☛☚ read all about it

the postman brought me a parcel:
and it raised a squeal:
I knew it was coming:
but I've had to wait:



 newspaper edition:
this is it as I unwrapped it
from it's polythene bag:

 trademark Donwood stamps:
miniature:
 underneath ~ the cd:
 underneath that ~ the records:
two of them:
in clear vinyl: {retro}
 the b sides:
the newspaper:
details:
oh yes I do:
best {belated} birthday present:

Sunday 8 May 2011

∞ mr & mrs

I didn't watch the royal wedding:
I was busy making punkcakes:
it got me remembering my 
own nuptials:
a small gathering:
 you never forget that day:
away from the media circus:
I hope the royal couple allow for growth:



make space for the new:
keep their individuality
and work as a couple:
hopefully their marriage will
last longer than mine:
but I am happy to turn the
page with a smile:

Saturday 7 May 2011

ᐳᐳ acrobatics

swifts returned to my sky today:
I've been told it's the same date
as last year:
watch them dive in the changing sky:

Tuesday 3 May 2011

⧦ birthday bloom

when you're a child
you can't wait for your birthday:
as you get older
it doesn't seem so important
to mark another year:
better it float past
like blossoms on a breeze: