• Desquamation #5 (2022)

    A final set of images inspired by the prompt for The Kick-About #46, a quote from Gaston Bachelard in which he observes there is much more to a house than its geometry alone. I went… Read more

  • Desquamation #4 (2022)

    In my quest to identify further shameful surfaces in my own home for the purposes of producing some new work for The Kick-About #46, I looked to the kitchen and bathroom, environments characterised by their… Read more

  • Desquamation #3 (2022)

    A third collection of photographs produced for The Kick-About #46, making indeterminate landscapes out of those shameful corners of my own home, wherein crumbs, dust, fluff and other errant fibres collect in silent disavowal of… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #93 Seasalter (2008)

    Looking a bit like the skeleton of a some primordial beast, the remains of an old groyne poke up through the low tide at Seasalter, taken back in 2008. Read more

  • Desquamation #2 (2022)

    A second collection of photographs inspired by The Kick-About #46, which saw me lying on my belly and folded into the neglected corners of my home, spotlighting the lunar landscapes of dust and fluff I… Read more

  • Desquamation #1 (2022)

    My response to this week’s Kick-About prompt – an observation by Gaston Bachelard’s observation on the true dimensions of a house – was in part, inspired by a recent re-watch of Street of Crocodiles by… Read more

  • The Kick-About #46 ‘Not An Inert Box’

    If our last Kick-About together introduced all of us to subjects far-removed from our daily lives and wonderfully esoteric, this week’s prompt, courtesy of Gaston Bachelard, returns us to more familiar spaces, as we explore… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #92 French Town, Evening (2009)

    I was sitting in the garden of a small, rustic restaurant in rural France when this photograph was taken, seated under a large tree with coloured lights threaded through its branches and drinking from a… Read more

  • Splendor Solis #3 (2022)

    A final set of Kick-About #45-inspired photographs, produced in response to the challenge of trying to kick-start a small celestial body in the confines of my narrow terraced house… In some of these images, you… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #91 The Old French House, Tableau (2009)

    A different take on the old French house for this Friday’s trip in the time-machine. This image from 2009 looks like the aftermath of some terrible row or marital stand-off, when, in fact, it’s nothing… Read more

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