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Not much to say about these, except for the obvious fact of lifting the idea of Niki de Saint Phalle’s ‘shooting paintings’ by loading a water pistol with acrylic paint and shooting it at short-range at some sheets of paper! Originally, I thought this was going to be the beginning of producing work for The…
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Our previous Kick-About was inspired by the orderly, taxonomic horticultural portraits of Karl Blossfeldt. A little less orderly is the work of Niki de Saint Phalle, an artist working across a range of media and scale whose work invites us to explore complex narratives of gender, identity, and societal transformation. Enjoy this latest selection of…
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Recently, sitting opposite an old friend on a fast train, I talked with him about an animation I’d watched years before and many times tried finding again without success. It was such a slight film, I said to him, the shortest of shorts, a wisp, but even as I spoke of it, something began lifting…
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A few posts back I shared some photographs taken of Whitstable Carnival and on that day, I went out with my camera wrapped in yellow cellophane to produce some in-camera atmospheres I thought appropriate to the event. While I was waiting for the carnival to begin processing, I took a few exploratory snaps – including…
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Taken back in July 2020, a largely unremarkable verge beside a largely unremarkable road, rendered painterly by the light and lengthening shadows at the end of the day. I could likely rhapsodise about fields all day!
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What I enjoy about Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs (our prompt for The Kick-About No.86), is the way in which they encourage us to zoom in and out in terms of our associations: I know these are photographs of smallish things, but I start seeing architecture and monumental sculpture and giant wrought-iron constructions. Likewise, I think Blossfeldt’s…
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Our last Kick-About was inspired by the work of Michael Landy, and artist notable for breaking things into fragments. This week it’s the photography of Karl Blossfeldt, an artist as interested in separating the whole into separate elements. Enjoy this latest exhibition of new works made in a short time and for all previous editions,…
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After locking myself into that old dark house known only by its number, three five one, I spent that night chasing spectral lights through its many silent, sombre rooms. This is the last image I took, downstairs in a shuttered room as the day was breaking and the dark was in retreat.
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On Saturday 4th August, Whitstable hosted its annual carnival, an eclectic and innately peculiar pageant that always fires my imagination, haunted as I am by The Wicker Man. This year, I wrapped my camera lens in a few layers of yellow cellophane and lengthened the exposure for something softened and stranger and more nostalgic.
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A final set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85; photographs of two small monkish figures fashioned from the remains of broken terracotta flower pots. There’s a bit of science-fiction in the mix here… infant space popes!
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