To eat/to speak
Nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul — Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra” To eat and to be eaten – this is the operational model of bodies, […]
Tag Archives: art writing
Mesostics
I’ve been editing some of the videos of Jeannie Marsh (singer & composer) performing the mesostic poems I wrote about the trees at the Bundanon Trust. It was a very […]
Aabenraa Artweek
I spent 10 days working in Aabenraa, South Denmark, as part of Artweek, with 16 other artists from all over the world. We worked in the border towns of Aabenraa, […]
Living the everyday
A quick-fire, immediate response to the last post. An exercise analysing the everyday through the lists I make, every single day… Monday 7:45 pick up Paddy – Joely card details, call Owen […]
Seeing the everyday
Given that I’ve not left the house for two days in a row, I thought this essay by Georges Perec by particularly relevant. In fact, it’s relevant to all my […]
Neutral colours for all!
For the last three weeks all I’ve known is paint. Matt emulsion, satin emulsion, vinyl emulsion, eggshell, soft distemper, full gloss. Henceforth, an ode to paint, a poem in three […]
Copy: Charts
(contribution to the publication Charts by Copy – November 2012) Five instruction sculptures for Yorkshire Sculpture Park* ONE Any work by Richard Long Establish a point A and point B […]
There Must Be More To Life Than This
This is an extract of the ninth and final story from the series Short Stories and Other Things… There Must Be More To Life Than This (extract) That day I […]
Goldsmiths Postgraduate Show 2012
“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see the…” From July 5-9 2012, most of the MFA Art Writing students took part in the Postgraduate Degree Show at […]
Vanity
Now Belen’s was a different story. Even this side of town everyone had heard of her. How, when she was a baby a dog had eaten her face off, skinned […]
