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Thanks everyone for all the lovely lovely birthday wishes 🎂🎈🥳😊😊😊 I've had a great time today and am so full of cake😂😂 I can't believe I'm soooooooo old now, 36 years feels like a long time to be sitting on my arse for but it's great to see so many nice messages from so many nice people🤗👍👍👍👍thank you and I hope you're all safe and well!

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The Excitement of Oneness… Last night I woke up at 4 in the morning…which I never do. It should have been dark but there was a dim light….so I looked out my window and found that the moon was not only bright and full but dead centre over the mountains. The sky was clear but there was a star, a single, brilliant star to the right of the moon. It was beautiful not only because of this but because I than realised it was near silent. There was no traffic noises, my family was asleep and the night (or morning) was totally soundless. I went back to sleep and woke again as usual at 6. The moment however was going around in my head all day. I thought it was Venus, the morning star, that I’d seen but after a quick bit of searching the internet told me I had probably seen Saturn. Which was just as beautiful. Some reading later on taught me that the Greco-Roman god Saturn had his own special festival on 17th of December (yes I know this is May 21st..) which celebrated liberation. It was the merriest of all the festivals! Where slaves were free during the festival…free to do what they wanted and wear what they wanted. It sounded wonderful! My health is a bit down at the moment so learning that I’d seen Saturn randomly at 4 in the morning….and it lead me to this wonderful thing, made me want to do some art. It excited me inside as if I’d been given permission to forget about sickness and get on with what I love doing. I was listening to a lecture on an international radio station a month ago and the lecturer said when we listen to our favourite piece of music or do something we like doing, that that’s the best way to be in tune with the divine, with God, with the world (etc)… So I sat down and did this work of art. It’s a piece of art about the excitement you feel when you’re in tune with something you like and I like doing art. How meta is that? What a wonderful moment it was:)

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To boldly go...……. *Woosh!*

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The Sea Maiden.

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I recently collaborated with my sister, Nessa Darcy, on a pollinator project she was doing. She is a creative entomologist who works very hard at reintroducing humans to their natural habitat....which might sound dull but you'd be VERY surprised. Check out her wonderful work here and here:) Go on!

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All because I still need to learn how to draw hair... 😅💈🕷️🕸️

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Doing art of any sort seems to rely on so much as if it were some magic evocation. A spell that needs the right things to be brought together in the right moment. I've been trying, I really have and it was yesterday the stars aligned; A podcast here, a newspaper item there, the first chapter of a new book.... The right weather and the right things in other people's lives.

I don't remember breakfast, I ate it when the spark lept and then I drew for the first time in a long time. Something worthy of this. It could have stopped there with a tiny newspaper squiggle.

The dog was at the door, a door, it's the closed door and she demands to know what lies beyond it.

I think I said oh shit when the paper tore right through the lines I thought I'd keep.

If you must know...and to cut the tale in two, she went beyond the door. I went and did the above. Using the photo I'd taken and felt it was better and thanked the dogs of mischief that it had spoilt.

I wondered though.

Around about lunch much later. I wondered about the work that's never done; books unwritten and art unmade. What human kind could have but doesn't know......what could be done, not undone. Not never seen. Do this, quickly now, before we forget. This great colossus we lose each second. Thank dog for the distraction.

Ad. The podcast was an episode of The Dilemma Podcast. An interview with the philosopher Ian Bogost.

The book was the first chapter of 'Planta Sapiens' by Paco Calvo.

And the news was an item in Live Science about the world if the dinosaurs had not died out.

I recommend it all 👍

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Don't Go! There is so much left to say....

Hello :) I'm sure by now you must think I'm a bot, a spammer or I just gave up on this account. None of that is true. Things have been busy in the real world and I just haven't managed to sit down and do more. I do want to do more and I do have more to post but life is life. Please hang on💔

There is a lot I want to get working on. A lot I want to do but maybe a month or two (three? I've lost count) real life hit. Not me, my family, but in that word...I'm there too. I don't know when my head will get the balance right between looking after what's real and getting down to work, I'm getting there though. I must be if I'm posting this.

I could tell you what stopped me in my tracks but I don't think I'm one of those people who pour out every bit of there lives online. Plus, it didn't happen to me. It's not mine to talk about. No matter how it might help things.

So I'll just say this (because I miss posting, I miss working and I miss sharing my work). I'm taking the slow route home to you. Don't worry about me, I'm on my way! Put the kettle on and wait. I'm nearly back, I'm nearly at the front door. I'm nearly at my desk.

The paper is out and I'm nearly lost in thought.

Thank You :)