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The latest in the image/quote introductions to some of the themes of the novel ‘Unfinished Painting’. This quote is from Georges Perec.

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

Quote 1: Buddha – Anattalakkhana Suta, Samyutta Nikaya XXII “Thus monks, any body whatsoever – past, future, or present; internal or externa

Dance in Twin Peaks Part Two is the second visual essay investigating the use of dance in the TV show (and film) of Twin Peaks.

Peter Bruegel the Elder completed his painting Landscape With The Fall of Icarus in around 1558. It (or, more likely, a very good copy) curr

(What Angels Do To Survive) “We let the weirdness in.” It all depends on your point of focus. If your attention shifts off the intended obje

Short piece inspired by Kate Bush’s Leave It Open

(A Road Trip Through Europe With William Blake). Road trips sound so… American. Heading out west , to the great beyond, to the forever sunse

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Europe No.2 (After Blake)

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Europe No.1 (After Blake)

Introduction It’s been forty years. Plenty of time to get some sense of perspective. Or so you’d think. So is it me, or was it then? Nothing

Turner Sunsets and Brighton Beach Clubs (1816 – 1991) The late 1980s felt like the end of an epoch. Everywhere you looked, old certainties w

An Outsider’s Dream Through a Distant Land American Gothic is a painting, completed in 1930 by Grant Wood. It is one of the most recognisabl

A Journey Through Twisted Perception “To be an artist, you must have great eyesight.” Seems obvious, doesn’t it? It’s wrong. It’s wrong on m

Introduction I have three cats, a white princess (Pixie), a black tom (Rikki) and the symbol cat who accompanies Rikki. I didn’t ask for thi

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