Our last Kick-About together sent us deep into Klimt’s pine forest, where inspiration waited for us between the trees. Something else waits for us in the woods this week… Beware, the Jabberwock!
Marion Raper
“I have decided to tell you about something that happened to me many years ago…”
Vanessa Clegg
“Thinking a little sideways, I decided to look at species that are as weird and unique as the one Lewis Caroll thought up, and came upon the Axolotl. This miraculous little creature bears the fate of others in that it’s critically endangered in the Mexican lakes where it lives due, of course, to human activity. It has an ability to regrow severed limbs and appears to stay forever young and so research is on fast-forward before they disappear entirely (in the wild). Anyway to give an ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ slant, I remembered the joy as a child from seeing the world through a kaleidoscope, so made a very very simple version and photographed the little axolotl painting from the top.”
Phil Gomm
“Inspired by the delinquent sparrows, adolescent starlings and industrious blackbirds that are always bustling about so comedically in our garden, I decided I’d give my surplus energies this week to imagining some fledgling borogroves: not the brightest I suspect, and easily startled, these lesser inhabitants of Lewis Carroll’s Tulgey Wood are sociable little things, though sometimes mistaken for flying fish, large moths or those pink and frondy axolotls. Fledgling borogroves don’t so much ‘mimsy’ as hare-about in sudden bursts of inexplicable excitement, before falling over, exhausted, with their legs in the air. Unfortunately, this makes them rather vulnerable to the predations of adult mome raths…”
Tom Beg
“I had a bit of fun, just distorting and sculpting a stock model until I got this suitably otherworldly, gangly and quite ugly beast-like thing.”
twitter.com/earthlystranger / vimeo.com/tombeg / tombeg.com
Graeme Daly
“After a few failed attempts at other things I decided upon these things, like something from Silent Hill. My photography behind renders of random 3D objects including mannequins, octopus legs, hair and spiders and a scan of my own mug from a previous idea for a kick about thrown in for good measure.”
@graemedalyart / vimeo.com/graemedaly / linkedin.com/in/graeme-daly / twitter.com/Graeme_Daly / gentlegiant.blog
Phil Cooper
“The rather playful prompt for the Kick-about this week suited me well as I’m away on holiday – hurrah! Two weeks in Corsica, staying in a chalet by the beach, so I’ve gathered some flotsam and jetsam to create a sort of sea-jabberwocky. I love beach-combing; not something I get to do very often now I live in the city, so I’m making the most of it and will be taking some of my treasures back to Berlin, but this creature will return to the sea, to bite at the toes of unsuspecting tourists like me.”
instagram.com/philcoops / hedgecrows.wordpress.com / phil-cooper.com
James Randall
“Crazy words that are funny, yet oddly scary, pastoral yet weirdly charged. I went down a secret track and haven’t returned – and never really resolved this image. Something to work on later.”
Charly Skilling
Kerfe Roig
“I didn’t think I could out-word Lewis Carroll, or out-image John Tenniel, so I tried to think of something in my life that was just as nonsensical. I worked in the fashion industry for over 40 years: there’s little in life as nonsensical as couture. I still have a stack of fashion magazines from my time as a designer that I use for collage. These grids are the result.“
kblog.blog / methodtwomadness.wordpress.com
And for our next creative excursion together, Delia Derbyshire’s Pot Au Feu from 1968. Known as “the unsung heroine of British electronic music” and perhaps most well-known for this signature tune, Derbyshire is celebrated for her experimental compositions and sonic transformations. Happy travels!
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