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Untitled 1 & 2 (Vieira da Silva) (2026)
I love Vieira da Silva’s paintings—our muse for The Kick-About No.163—they have the quality of care-worn tapestries or bedcovers faded with use. Such rich surfaces and terrains. I got some 12″ x 12″ artist boards… Read more
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The Kick-About #163 | Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
It was with great sadness that I learned that Jan Blake, a long-time contributor to The Kick-About, had died. Her friend Francesca Maxwell, who shared the news with me, wrote: “Donati’s Comet has been in… Read more
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Mare Ferrum (2026)
Inspired by Donati’s Comet – our prompt for The Kick-About No. 162 – these images evoke the Moon but are in fact photographs of the corroded bowls of a series of metal bird baths from… Read more
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The Kick-About #162 | Donati’s Comet
In our last Kick-About, Lee Bontecou gave us forms that felt part-machine, part-organism, and part imagined architecture. This week, we look much further out, to Donati’s Comet — a nineteenth-century spectacle of light, movement, and… Read more
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The Bontecou Pavilion (2026)
My immediate association with Lee Bontecou’s sculptures and drawings was the kind of speculative, temporary architecture you see at world expos, like the 1951 Festival of Britain. I was thinking about masts, tensile structures and… Read more
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The Kick-About #161 | Lee Bontecou
In our last Kick-About, simple geometric shapes were set in motion, proving just how much could be achieved with the simplest of forms. This week, we move back into three dimensions with the work of… Read more
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Jazzy Triangle (2026)
I took my inspiration for these images for The Kick-About No. 160 from the lovely short film Pas de Deux by Norman McLaren, as it shares with Jazzy Triangle Meets a Square Square a stroboscopic… Read more
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The Kick-About #160 | Jazzy Triangle Meets A Square Square
In our last Kick-About, Alberto Giacometti gave us figures reduced to their essentials — spare forms standing in space. This time, we move from sculpture to animation, and from the human figure to simple geometry.… Read more
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Taranto (2026)
With Albert Giacometti’s sculptures as our recent Kick-About muse, I made some strange little figures of my own. I called them Stigmatics after their poppy-like head-shapes, and because this grouping of strange, silent characters made… Read more
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Stigmatics (2026)
More tiny, table-top sculptures inspired by Giacometti’s strange, attenuated figures—our muse for The Kick-About No.159—I had half a packet of mass-produced vinyl heads I’d sourced for this Kick-About project, and one of them was stuck… Read more
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