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Short Story: The Mistress’s Quilt (2023)
Better late than never, right? So this short story was inspired by the narrative quilts of Harriet Powers, the prompt for The Kick-About No.68. I wasn’t able to complete the story by the original submission… Read more
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Un-sofa #3 (2023)
A final set of photographs of a plastic-wrapped sofa against an unplastered wall, a couple of which put me in mind of Caspar David Friedrich’s The Sea Of Ice painting. These images were produced for… Read more
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Throwback Friday #139 ‘Bamboo’ 2014
Taken in the summer of 2014, a vigorous clump of bamboo at the back of the old French house. Read more
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Un-sofa #2 (2023)
A further set of photographs produced in response to The Kick-About No.71, which this week takes the wrapped landscapes of Christo and Jeanne-Claude as its muse. Read more
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Un-sofa #1 (2023)
The short version is we bought a new leather sofa recently, which turned out to be too big for the room it was meant for. The sofa came wrapped in plastic – and remains so… Read more
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The Kick-About #71 ‘Christo & Jeanne-Claude’
If our last Kick-About showcased new works made in a short time inspired by an extraordinary artist with which some of us were unfamiliar, this week’s online exhibition takes its cue from a very famous… Read more
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Throwback Friday #138 ‘Centaurea’
More old-school 35mm flower photographs from the early 2000s or thereabouts, celebrating the gorgeous blues, pinks and purples of centaureas, and here, served two ways: the first being an image of the field cornflower, Centaurea… Read more
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After Hilma #3 (2022)
The fast few Hilma Af Klint-inspired images produced for The Kick-About No.70: murky, ominous canvases with a cosmic vibe. Read more
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Throwback Friday #137 ‘Cornus kousa’ 2007/8
A welcome reminder of what is to come as we trudge through January… As with many of these horticultural photographs, taken back in the day on 35mm, I have no record of the when or… Read more
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