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The Kick-About #169 | Ossuary
In our last Kick-About, herman de vries prompted us to collect, examine and arrange the materials of the natural world. This week, we enter the ossuary, and consider the strange and sometimes unsettling possibilities of… Read more
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After de vries (2026)
This was a relaxing and mediative prompt for The Kick-About No. 168. First I collected lots of half walnut shells, discarded by red squirrels. Then I deconstructed a really chunky pinecone into its individual scales.… Read more
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The Kick-About #168 | herman de vries
Our last Kick-About took us on journeys through landscapes both real and imagined, and from inner space to outer space. This week, we turn to herman de vries, whose work asks us to look closely… Read more
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Lichen (2026)
These photographs are of lichen found growing in abundance on some old fallen oak branches. Once photographed, they reminded me of bronchial cross-sections, or slices of brains—or giant oak trees, or aerial images of watery… Read more
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The Kick-About #167 | Fantastic Voyage
In our last Kick-About, Hermína Týrlová’s The Glass Marble set a cast of curious creatures in pursuit of a simple glass sphere. This week, our sights are set rather further away, with Fantastic Voyage opening… Read more
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Entomon (2026)
I was charmed by the character designs in Hermína Týrlová’s 1963 animation, The Glass Marble—prompt for The Kick-About No. 166—and got thinking about Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar by association: something about the reduction… Read more
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The Kick-About #166 | The Glass Marble
In our last Kick-About, Odilon Redon’s The Cyclops prompted all manner of responses to its one-eyed giant. This week, we turn to The Glass Marble by Hermína Týrlová, the Czech animator and pioneer of puppet… Read more
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Cyclops (2026)
When I think about ‘The Cyclops’, my mind goes immediately to Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion monster in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Maybe for this reason alone, I looked instead at the smallest example of a cyclops… Read more
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The Kick-About #165 | The Cyclops
In our last Kick-About, Alexander Calder’s Goldfish Bowl prompted responses to a small, self-contained world of wire, movement, and suspended forms. This week, we turn one eye to Odilon Redon’s The Cyclops. As always, the… Read more
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