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Cycles of Trauma and Creation in Kate Bush’s “Get Out Of My House” This article is dedicated to a wonderful painter. You will find circles, animals and peace. The Two Styles of The Dreaming Kate Bush’s 1982 release “The Dreaming” is an album which may, lyrically, be divided into two converging strands. There are “role play” tracks (There Goes a Tenner, Pull Out The Pin, The Dreaming, Houdini…

Click on the image to take you to the Bradford Fringe Festival eventbrite page. The live stream will be at 3pm UK time on Wednesday 7/7. You will be able to access the link to it throughout the festival. See you there!

Reading at Bradford Fringe Festival

By way of a book launch… Fancy hearing me read extracts from my new novel ‘Unfinished Paintings’? If so, HERE’s your chance! I’ll be on live stream as part of Bradford Fringe Festival (3pm UK time, 7th July). Tickets available from the festival website. If you can’t make it for the live event, a link will be available throughout the duration of the festival. I’m super chuffed to have the…

On Understanding The Steppenwolf

1. Published in 1927, Hermann Hesse’s tenth novel, tells the story of Harry Halle (HH… ), an ageing former scholar, struggling to come to terms with both his internal demons and the changing world at large. It is a book of crisis, both personal and societal. Indeed, it may be seen as a re-writing of the collection of poetry – Krisis – Hesse published in 1926. Haller is a figure resigned to the…

The Angel of Melancholy

Angel of Melancholy (after Dürer) – ink on paper: Gavin Jones Three Quotes on Melancholy: Plath, Wilde, Lorca The Angel of Melancholy is the central figure in Albrecht Dürer’s print ‘Melencholia I’, of 1514. Throughout the work are symbols related to different aspects of the melancholic humour. The print, housed in the British Museum, features in the novel ‘Unfinished Paintings’. “I laugh and…

A Conversation – ink on paper: Gavin Jones Transcript excerpt from my audio diary, May 1999 “I’m in Satsuma restaurant, just around the corner from Old Compton Street. Last Friday… a week ago, in fact… the bomb went off. I’m eating a veggie bento box and outside at the moment there’s a service going on to the people who died… there are people crying… people hugging… it’s a coming together.Last…

Not a Solitary Game

Rome – ink on paper: Gavin Jones ‘Life A User’s Manual’ by Georges Perec “From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game. Every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before. Every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries,…

All Those Dreams – ink on paper: Gavin Jones Synecdoche, New York: Charlie Kauffman “Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you’ll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get…

Nothing Left To Say – ink on paper; Gavin Jones Quote from ‘Orlando’ by Virginia Woolf “For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may have many thousand…and these selves of which we are built up, one on top of the other, as plates…

The Arena of the Unwell

By Brighton Pier – ink on paper, Gavin Jones From ‘Withnail and I’ by Bruce Robinson “Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. And for once, I’m inclined to believe Withnail is right; we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell. Making an enemy of our own future.” Watch the quote in context HERE. ‘Quotes Towards a Non-Self Character Novel’ are a series of image/quotes,…

Running Up That Hill

Another-self Portrait, ink on paper, Gavin Jones Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush: Part 4 of Quotes Towards A Non-Self Character Novel “Is there so much hate for the ones we love?Tell me, we both matter don’t we?You… it’s you and me…It’s you and me, won’t be unhappy.And if I only could,I’d make a deal with God,And I’d get him to swap our places.”If you’d like to watch the official video for…

also known as self-addiction

Two Faced Portrait – ink on paper: Gavin Jones Part 4 of ‘Quotes Towards a Non-Self Character Novel’: From ‘How to Find Your Non-Self, by William Van Gordon (Psychology Today). “As I discussed in my previous article on ontological addiction (also known as self-addiction), we and all other phenomena exist only in a relative manner and apart from a categorical label, something that constitutes…

Quotes Towards a Non-Self Character Novel (Part 3)

Many Faces, ink on paper: Gavin Jones Teenage Wildlife | Golden Years | Cracked Actor : David Bowie “And push your luck, still you push, still you push your luckA broken nosed mogul are you one of the new wave boys?”“Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere, angelCome get up, my babyLook at that sky, life’s begunNights are warm and the days are youngCome get up, my baby.”“I’ve come…

Quotes Towards a Non-Self Character Novel (2), the second in a series highlighting the themes of the novel “Unfinished Paintings”.

‘Delicious, delicious’, ink on paper by Gavin Jones Margaret’s Black Light Speech from the film Liquid Sky (1982, Slava Tsukerman) “You wanted to know where I’m from? I’m from Connecticut, Mayflower stock. I was taught that my prince would come, and he would be a lawyer, and I would have his children. And on weekends we would barbecue. And all the other princes and princesses would come, and…

Quotes Towards a Non-Self Character Novel

Fragmented Self – ink on paper by Gavin Jones Quote 1: Buddha – Anattalakkhana Suta, Samyutta Nikaya XXII “Thus monks, any body whatsoever – past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle, common or sublime, far or near: every body is to be seen as it actually is, with right discernment as: ‘This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.'”‘Quotes Towards a…

Dance in Twin Peaks (Part 2) is the second visual essay on the many uses of dance in Lynch & Frost’s TV masterpiece.

Many of the important details in Twin Peaks exist beyond words. The town name board is, literally, only the entrance to the realms which lie beyond. Running through its world is dance. The image link below will take you to the second, short visual essay on this subject. For part one of this investigation, click HERE