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  • Head Piece #6 (2022)

    You can thank John Stezaker’s hybrid portraits for the recent outbreak of severed sightless heads popping up on my blog over recent days, but another bit of the Kick-About #47 prompt was the specific title… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #96 Little Things (2004?)

    For this week’s rummage through the archives of ‘stuff wot I’ve done’, it’s an airing for another of those sad little songs written all the way back in the early-mid 2000s, when I was licking… Read more

  • Head Piece #5 (2022)

    And you thought finding a spider in the bathtub was unpleasant. A few more unheimlich japes, courtesy of the Kick-About No.47, a balaclava, and a pair or two of flesh-coloured nylon tights… Read more

  • Head Piece #4 (2022)

    ay, another collection of disembodied heads arranged just-so on my living room sofa, all for the purposes of producing some John Stezaker-inspired photographs for the Kick-About No.47, and all in the name in art. Our… Read more

  • Head Piece #3 (2022)

    Muses come in all shapes and sizes – even, it seems in the shape of a poorly-sewn head and an ox-blood coloured sofa. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #95 West Beach, July (2021)

    When Whitstable gets very busy, those-in-the-know eschew the more popular bits of the beach and head-off towards the West Beach, where you won’t get a pint or a bag of chips, but you will get… Read more

  • Head Piece #2 (2022)

    A second set of photographs produced in response to the photographic collages of John Stezaker, the prompt for our most recent Kick-About together. In some of these images, the titular head-piece has been given eyes,… Read more

  • Head Piece #1 (2022)

    All of this began simply enough: in response to the Kick-About No.47, try and construct a new face from fragments in a John Stezaker-style, and in so doing, seek to produce something as unsettling as… Read more

  • The Kick-About #47 ‘Marriage’

    Our last Kick-About, inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, encouraged us to examine our domestic spaces and think about the physical and emotional parameters of home. Now, with John Stezaker’s uneasy marriage between photographic… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #94 The Widow’s House (2020)

    With its back tight up against the rise of the woods, and its chalky face looking out over the meadow, the Widow’s House is effortlessly photographic – or do I mean, cinematic? Every time I… Read more

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