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Did you know … quinces hold diverse symbolic meanings across cultures; they are commonly associated with love and romance, symbolising the enduring sweetness of relationships. Additionally, quinces represent fertility and abundance, often bestowed as wishes for prosperity to newlyweds. The fruit’s duality, starting tart but turning sweet when cooked, is linked to patience and temperance.…
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Our previous Kick-About, inspired as it was by the paper-layerings of artist Maud Vantours, prompted a number of us to consider the ephemera we collect about us and repurpose it. For this edition of our fortnightly run-around, we find ourselves similarly preoccupied with ideas of temporariness and the inevitable passings of time. Enjoy this latest selection of…
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Another day, another inter-dimensional portal…
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A second collection of images produced for The Kick-About No.96, inspired by the layered, paper creations of artist Maud Vantours. Created using a flat-bed scanner and a stack of ordinance survey maps and guide books, I wanted to concertina as much geography as possible into a single image.
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The Kick-About No.96 is inspired by the colourful paper creations of Maud Vantours. With Vantours’ work putting me in mind of geography – contour maps and geological strata – I wondered how I could fold or concertina as much landscape as possible into one composition. My images this week were created by taking a great…
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Our last Kick-About together was a seasonal affair, with the figure of Father Christmas as its muse. Now that Christmas is done and dusted, we’re likely reflecting on the mountains of cardboard and paper produced by Santa’s insistence on ‘more, more, more’. With that surplus of paper in mind, Maud Vantours is our inspiration this week…
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Just some low-lying, skulking thing magicked out of the dark, back in the summer of 2015.
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At the Whitstable harbour, someone has constructed a very large Christmas tree out of fishing nets, crab cages, buoys, and lots and lots of lights. It’s larger-than-life in all ways and I paid the tree a visit one night this week with my camera (inside an organza bag) – and likewise the harbour itself, in which…
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Written for The Kick-About No.95, a seasonal short story with both darkness and light at its heart. I wouldn’t say Merry Christmas exactly… You can find a PDF here
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If our previous Kick-About transported us into a world of ice and some of its fantastical denizens, courtesy of Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, this, our last KA of 2023, is a celebration (of sorts) of things we may associate with the big fella in red and other emblems of Christmas. If you want to browse all…
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