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Explaining There is a fundamental problem with explaining your work to people in most contexts. The meaning you give in the particular moment would be a different meaning in any another. I think I mean I’m still struggling with the idea of praxis because it seems that the recognition of it is contingent. In any case I am just about to complete another CAA course, this one a four week ‘crit’…

I spent the best part of the beginning of the month refining ‘woolgathering’ and intermittently thinking it was finished and that I needed to do more to it. By the end of the month it looked like this, but I’ve decided I need to add another scene and I’ve refined the transitions. Then I move on to the Tickhill Road Drawings. Acrobats August 4th 2025 I made this drawing after I’d completed the…

Property “That property in land and liberty among men, in a state of nature, ought to be equal, few, one would fain hope, would be foolish enough to deny. Therefore, taking this to be granted, the country of any people, in a native state, is properly their common, in which each of them has an equal property, with free liberty to sustain himself and connections with the animals, fruits and other…

Quicksand Another New Studio There is a way in which applying for funding sucks the life out of you and makes you perceive your practice as lacking any kind of progress. A lot of applications, anything in ACE projects or DYCP and most other that arrive without fanfare require a well defined project that hasn’t been started yet and won’t be started until the grant is approved. The problem with…

A lot less Space in the Studio Another New Studio In the book ‘The Garden Against Time’ Olivia Laing writes about the restoration of a garden, delving into its history and the forces around it that shape that history. She writes “ …I was exhausted by the perpetual, agonised now of the news. I didn’t just want to journey backwards through the centuries. I wanted to move into a different…

Moore’s Law Another New Studio studio 03/07/24 headset no artist Apparently “Moore’s Law” is dead, and has been since 2016. The result is that programming has to improve in terms of performance if advancements are going to come at all. Programmers need to make processes more efficient so that less power is needed and the machines can do more without getting significantly faster. Not that anyone…

Reason vs Motivation Another New Studio On the Open weekend I had twenty visitors on the Saturday and two on the Sunday, I can’t complain because I sold a painting. I’ve called this post Reason vs Motivation as a step towards an explanation of my current practice. When I was talking to people at the open studio the film elicited some comments about its elegiac quality, which tied into my thinking…