Two carrier bags of young beech leaves steeping in three liters of gin.
Monthly archives: May 2012
baking
Four lemon drizzle cakes for the allotment annual plant sale, well two for home and two for the sale.
telegraph?
Along the edge of the rail line run these posts that look like they once carried wires. I’m sure I can recall them with multiple strands. Were they telegraph wires?
first swift
I saw the first swift of the year above Bole Hill Park.
hypocrisy
There I am writing about collaborating with the litterer. On the way back from school my daughter eats a tangerine. You’ve not dropped the peel? I ask. No I hear, it is in her pocket.
occupation as art
Below is part of a reply I made to a friend who is concerned with collaboration in socially engaged arts practice. The idea of “(a)rt becoming at least in the west more democratic” (perhaps) is an expression of it not being even possibly democratic.
god and nature and the solution
Some time ago in a sitting room in France with some British friends I was looking at the photos, prints and paintings hanging on the walls. I had began a conversation with them about the idea that the natural world, the landscape, nature shared important attributes with God, perhaps the Old Testament God who had …
the litterer and i
I was out walking on Tuesday, well, I stopped the car and clambered into a small wasteland, once the site of pigeon lofts.
collaboration is uncomfortable
Writing about collaboration again in the context of socially constructive arts practice, that is work done by artists which is supposed to have some sort of beneficial impact on a specific social environment. I’m very suspicious of all collaboration! aren’t you? When we fall in love we do things together and then we don’t and …
digging hoe, beche, binette
We’ve started digging the plot. DD has taken the lead, a farmer from Ghana, he is showing me how to work the garden using my digging hoe. This was bought in Spain from a Chinese shop. It is a very different way to work the ground from the ways I have learned. DD works across …