DYCP is go!
Really pleased to have been awarded DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice) funding from Arts Council England. It is to go towards developing my work with point clouds and virtual interaction, […]
Time to emerge
Emerging from lockdown like a Mayfly from the river, Surface Tensions can be seen for the 1st time on the last weekend in May – three days only! So if […]
Helmholtz 2.0
Hermann von Helmholtz, (1821–1894) is often considered to be one of the last polymaths in science: the final incarnation of a time when the whole of science could be grasped […]
Ichor
The word ‘petrichor’ refers to the wonderful scent given off by dry earth when rain falls upon it. It comes from the Greek: ‘petra’ for rock, and ‘ichor’, which was […]
Tamp ‘Em Up Solid
It’s a new word to me: tamp. It’s when you pack something down firmly, avoiding too much pressure that it becomes squashed: in the world of earth building that would […]
Splat!
I spent yesterday in the CobBauge workshop at Plymouth Uni, finding out more about this material. The day was spent fluctuating between two poles: one, earthed, that what we are […]
E is for ’embodied’
We are such a visual culture. It seems that new buildings are often designed to look good in a photo: a quick glance on Instagram reveals feed after feed of […]
CobBauge
So where to start tackling the climate emergency? How about over a cup of tea? Well, not quite, but the cup did come up in my first meeting as Creative […]
New for 2021
I’m glad to say that New Forest Imaginarium will be going ahead in the new year: the initial funding has come through thanks to Mark at spudWORKS. Really looking forward […]
what4words
gut.place.belief.interact [Thought experiment for Creative Fellowship in the form of a Venn diagram, following a conversation with Steve, using a portait of John Venn. Don’t know what to make of […]
It
Things are moving on with the Creative Fellowship at University of Exeter. Here is a working drawing, entitled ‘It’, in the form of a mini-manifesto to the AMR network. I’m […]
God, azoles and rethinking the self
I wanted to find out what a philosopher could possibly be doing in the AMR network. Well, now I know. It is intriguing: turns out he is part of the […]
The gas man cometh
Amongst my parents’ small collection of LPs was this one. Aside from ‘Hippo Encore’ [Mud, mud, glorious mud] and ‘First and Second Law’ [of Thermodynamics], it was the song ‘The […]
Feeling the network
I love harmonographs. Place the tip of the pen on the paper and set the pendula in motion. Then watch in wonder as the drawing slowly reveals itself: a unique […]
Smash and grab
I’ve been trying to get my head around next-generation genome sequencing. How it has revolutionised our understanding of microbiomes. From what I can work out, somewhat similar to the arrival […]
One for every occassion
You might have an old wooden-handled hammer and offer it to three people: to the first, it is a useful tool for a spot of weekend DIY; to the second […]
