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  • The Kick-About #143 ‘Diane Arbus’

    In our last Kick-About, Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus invited us to see identity reshaped through the shifting forms of nature. Now, as autumn deepens and the light grows thinner, our focus turns to Diane Arbus—an artist who… Read more

  • After Vertumnus (2025)

    There is a long-running radio programme on the BBC called ‘Just a Minute’, in which contestants are given one minute to talk about a given subject for a minute without repetition or deviation. Fittingly, I… Read more

  • The Kick-About #142 ‘Vertumnus’

    In our last Kick-About, the spinning top had us thinking about rhythm, motion, and balance. This week, the prompt takes a more fantastical turn with Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus—a portrait of Emperor Rudolf II composed entirely… Read more

  • Spin (2025)

    You’ll laugh when I tell you how I made these images for The Kick-About No,141—at least, my husband laughed when he saw me walking a 4K webcam out of the back door into the garden… Read more

  • The Kick-About #141 ‘Spinning Top’

    In our last Kick-About, we looked to the work of Nnenna Okore, whose sculptures transform simple materials into forms alive with texture and rhythm. This week’s prompt is the spinning top—an object of balance and… Read more

  • Reticulation (2025)

    These Nnenna Okore-inspired images for The Kick-About No. 140 began simply enough as photographs of the caustics at the bottom of a holiday swimming pool. The ‘netting effect’ of the sunlit water on the bottom… Read more

  • The Kick-About #140 ‘Nnenna Okore’

    Our last Kick-About lingered in the half-light, drawing inspiration from the phrase In Praise of Shadows. This week, our muse is the artist Nnenna Okore, whose tactile, organic sculptures are often shaped from everyday or… Read more

  • The Modern House: How My Garden Grows

    At the very end of July, I was visited by a small team of creative people from The Modern House—not because my house is ‘modern’ (it’s not), but because they’ve launched a new thread about… Read more

  • Naiad (2025)

    A few weeks back I was on holiday at a house with a small swimming pool. It was incredibly hot, and the pool was beloved by clouds of thirsty wasps and hornets, so floating about… Read more

  • Ombre (2025)

    I was away in France two weeks ago in an old house that always inspires me to channel my inner ‘spirit photographer’, hoping to create and/or capture some kind of phantasmagoria with my camera. The… Read more

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