Autumn makes space for sunny stories
It was something I had struggled with in the past. Feng Shui was what I badly needed in my life. Order, symmetry, and clear surfaces promise so much yet the simple journey to get to this destination I did not have time for. As a fellow Blogger, Writer or Artist you may agree that there […]
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Perfect Day on the Fringe
My perfect day is performing solo at the Edinburgh Fringe. It is terrifying before the show starts and this audio tape nails a moment of how it feels for me before any kind of performance, all wobbly and expanding! The buzz of being in Edinburgh when the sun shines is a blast and these photographs may help […]
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Napoli unplugged
fSmall audio tape and film follows the feelings of a couple parting over coffee in Naples. Their emotions reflected the distorted beauty around the cafe. With the blue moon appearing later in the month the moment felt strangely timely to write about people embracing a new opportunity, even if they felt they had no choice […]
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Free Traffic
Due to a delayed flight I spent an unexpected overnight stop in pitch darkness at Palermo. I was not alone, the route to the city was jammed. There was plenty of time to take photos. Looking at them now it feels like I visited two different places though my heart sees one. […]
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Old Volcano
Here is my story of Strombolicchio, a symbolic old volcano stuck out in the sea, told from the perspective of climbing the new volcano it gave birth to. A small sea stack in the middle of the sea was facing me. When I swam around it I found out it was a symbol of energy […]
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Thrift Story Candy
The thrift store was somewhere my Auntie found a last gasp of job satisfaction after caring for people one to one for most of her life. Now she was helping people with pain indirectly it seemed to take the weight off her shoulders. She looked younger and wore a lot of pink. The shop […]
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Burning Tires in Urbino
My week at in the Urbino Valley of central Italy came to an end. There was a thump to the floor and the rhythms felt bold. They made this sound. Tiny pebbles dance like ash smashing through fire flies hitting the aimless darkness as the valleys show partygoers how to echo their desires […]
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Display of Genius at Bodleian Library
Oxford publisher Basil Blackwell was known as the ‘Gaffer’ and has his personal library on display near a featured exhibition of books curated by Sir Thomas Bodley in the Bodleian library. Bodley founded the library that is showing off some brand new architecture that envelops the outside. The new additions to the Bodleian […]
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Ed Paschke
Ed Paschke shows how blurred boundaries provide a useful resource to build strong relationships from. The warmth from the faces such as ‘Hilda’ stare brazenly out at the viewer and could be attested to the close ties Paschke built with colleagues in his studio who supported his creative process. It is hard to know where the […]
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Upward Mobility
This month the gallery at Modern Art Oxford has a juice bar at the centre of the building to celebrate a new exhibition that looks at how we are never truly private when we walk outside. The barriers between what is personal and what is public are investigated by placing iPads as cameras in garden […]
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