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Short story: Leonard Snell & The Spiders (2024)
This seasonal offering—produced for The Kick-About No.117—was directly inspired by my recent stay in an old French house, which often begins with the task of hoovering up cobwebs and their occupants, along with the occasional… Read more
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The Kick-About #117 ‘Cobweb’
Our previous Kick-About together was inspired by the mid-century modern textile designs of Lucienne Day, and a number of her patterns feature graphical, cobweb-like forms. With Halloween fast-approaching—and bringing with it all the usual trappings—this… Read more
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Short film: Lucienne (2024)
I love Lucienne Day’s designs: seed heads, molecules, plankton, atom-age flying saucers… I don’t care what they are; they just cheer me up. There’s always an implied movement to Day’s patterns; I sometimes get this… Read more
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The Kick-About #116 ‘Lucienne Day’
Our previous Kick-About was a rumination on the theme of negative space—an aesthetic consideration no less vital to the work of this week’s muse: the textile designs of Lucienne Day. Enjoy this latest showcase of… Read more
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Balustrade, Brantôme (2024)
What this really needs is a spectral ‘lady in white’ figure to complete the gothic scene… “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again” Read more
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Fault (2024)
I took inspiration from Rachel Whiteread and her casts made from the interior spaces of objects and environments. Similarly, I was interested in ‘visibilising’ otherwise invisible spaces in the form of objects—my response to the… Read more
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The Kick-About #115 ‘Negative Space’
The last edition of The Kick-About took us to the preferred habitat of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests—empty horizons of sea and sky: all the better for directing our focus on Jansen’s remarkable ambulatory creations. This week,… Read more
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Pink House, Brantôme (2024)
Another watery French building floating in the waters at Brantôme. Read more
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Weir At Brantôme (2024)
Same rainy, overcast day in Brantôme, France; there’s a low weir spanning the river and this photograph was taken of the ‘split screen’ effect of the weir and the reflections of the trees in the… Read more
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Brantôme (2024)
I’ve been in France for a few weeks, eeking out the summer for as long as possible – even though on the day this photograph was taken in Brantôme, it was overcast and raining. We… Read more
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