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Taken back in July 2020, a largely unremarkable verge beside a largely unremarkable road, rendered painterly by the light and lengthening shadows at the end of the day. I could likely rhapsodise about fields all day!
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What I enjoy about Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs (our prompt for The Kick-About No.86), is the way in which they encourage us to zoom in and out in terms of our associations: I know these are photographs of smallish things, but I start seeing architecture and monumental sculpture and giant wrought-iron constructions. Likewise, I think Blossfeldt’s…
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Our last Kick-About was inspired by the work of Michael Landy, and artist notable for breaking things into fragments. This week it’s the photography of Karl Blossfeldt, an artist as interested in separating the whole into separate elements. Enjoy this latest exhibition of new works made in a short time and for all previous editions,…
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After locking myself into that old dark house known only by its number, three five one, I spent that night chasing spectral lights through its many silent, sombre rooms. This is the last image I took, downstairs in a shuttered room as the day was breaking and the dark was in retreat.
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On Saturday 4th August, Whitstable hosted its annual carnival, an eclectic and innately peculiar pageant that always fires my imagination, haunted as I am by The Wicker Man. This year, I wrapped my camera lens in a few layers of yellow cellophane and lengthened the exposure for something softened and stranger and more nostalgic.
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A final set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85; photographs of two small monkish figures fashioned from the remains of broken terracotta flower pots. There’s a bit of science-fiction in the mix here… infant space popes!
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Bringing it all together in one post for your listening pleasure… presenting the complete audio book adaptation of Chimera Book 1
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Chimera is my children’s book about a world of lost things – and the final episode in the audio adaptation has itself been ‘lost’, vanished by more humdrum stuff and a million less thrilling things. That said, the day has arrived at last, and I’m very happy to announce that Chimera Book 1 is now…
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Inspired by Michael Landy’s saints, comprised as they are from broken bits and fragments, a second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85. Assembled from shards of terracotta flower pots, I was going for something silent-seeming and monastic, but likewise inspired by the gliding, unheimlich tailors from The Brother’s Quay animation, Street Of Crocodiles.
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So lots going on here in my response to The Kick-About No.85 and the work of artist Michael Landy. I went with ‘fragments and saints’ as my starter-for-ten, and then looked around for the sort of broken stuff I had about the place in abundance. We’ve got piles of smashed terracotta flower pots in the…
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