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Evening Desk

Testing lots of combinations today – ending the day half way through…

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art photography

photos (strange ones)

continuing with the thought of using gold leaf to create gilded landscape photos. these are strange, and very imperfect, but I’m persevering, I feel like there may be something yet to come from it.

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artists books painting

two paintings

The windows in my room face west, and today the sun streamed in, just at five o’clock, lighting up the chair where I was propping up some test paintings. These paintings are done with watercolour, coffee and ink. I like the coffee because it half resists, half mixes with the paints, but its mucky, especially […]

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Uncategorized video

apple pie

a very short video clip to share apple pie still turning over in my mind the sorts of things I can do with videos of hands that are making hands have their own intelligence, in making, and this is something that is worth drawing attention to

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art drawing

on drawing

I’ve been sitting at my desk for a lot of today, finding words about hope, and continuing with the reading that I am doing about the work of Joseph Beuys. Sitting at my desk with my back to the large drawing I’ve started and not giving it any thought. It is behind me because I […]

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art artists books

artists’ book

Working today on a folding book for my collaborative book project with Suzie Ross.

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art artists books

four scrolls

A short video, still working with the watercolour scroll forms. I heard a palliative care doctor talking once, she said that there are four things that people very often need to say before departing.

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art

evening workbench

I had many many thoughts and ideas this evening, and I wanted to write some of them down. There was nowhere to write them though, because I have reached the back cover of my beautiful electric blue sketchbook – and they are the kind of ideas that belong in there, and not in my black […]

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art drawing

evening workbench photo