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Splendor Solis #2 (2022)
A second batch of Kick-About-inspired orbs, spinning around in dark spaces. Read more
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Splendor Solis #1 (2022)
Our latest Kick-About was inspired by an obscure (to me at least) alchemical text dated from 1582 entitled Splendor Solis or The Splendour of the Sun. So how to conjure an astronomical phenomena into being… Read more
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The Kick-About #45 ‘Splendor Solis’
From the effortless, airborne whirligigs of our last Kick-About together to another transmutation of matter into something elemental and illuminating! For this week’s creative challenge, we’ve been in the business of summoning the sunshine, and,… Read more
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Throwback Friday #90 France (2009)
From all the way back in 2009, some reminders of a happy place, and of late summer days, and very simple pleasures, and of time, slowing. Read more
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After Calder #3 / Cellophane (2021)
A second set of Calder-inspired photographs, produced in response to the Kick-About No.44, and achieved through the simple means of photographing a garland of cellophane wrappers, unfurled from a great many Quality Street chocolates… Read more
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Throwback Friday #89 ‘Arrivals III’ (2015)
A couple of other-worldly manifestations from 2015. What is it? Where does it come from? What does it want?! Read more
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After Calder #2 / Cellophane (2021)
With one of Alexander Calder’s wonderful sculptures-comes-mobiles as the prompt for the latest Kick-About, I initially set about producing these digital compositions in Photoshop. I then happened on a much more lo-fi opportunity, resulting from… Read more
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After Calder #1 (2021)
I love Alexander Calder’s work, so in response to the prompt for the Kick-About #44, I wanted to build some similar whirling thing in my house, and then seek to capture ideas of movement, flight,… Read more
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The Kick-About #44 ‘Double Gong’
After the pudding-weight of festive expectations associated with our previous Kick-About, Alexander Calder’s light-weight dance of shape and colour sends us turning gently into the new year, with another showcase of new works made in… Read more
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Throwback Friday #88 Funfair (2012)
For this Friday’s flashback, an unseasonal flash-forwards to the high days of summer, with these pictures snapped in August 2012, when the funfair arrived on the Tankerton slopes and the evening was filled with the… Read more
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