The blackest of blacks
Yesterday afternoon I took a memorable walk with artist Peter Ward along the coast just south of Westward Ho! in north Devon. With the rain drizzling in off the sea, Peter […]
Portland Olympiad
At last, my chance to work on the Jurassic Coast! I am really happy to have been awarded the Exploratory Laboratory commission for the Isle of Portland, part of the […]
Jurassic egg
Over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking about suitable structures for a mobile artist studio, something I could take to a residency as my base. Then this […]
View from above
Some pictures just take my breath away, and this is one of them, taken from the International Space Station passing over Antarctica. For my project Birds of the Antarctic I […]
A Space for the Bittern (Cotswold Water Park)
Left behind
It is quite a moving story. The church is sited on the alluvial floodplain of the Thames and got wet too often for the villagers, so they decided to move […]
A Space for the Bittern (Cotswold Water Park)
The intimacy of water
Swimming in the lake here in northeastern Germany has its own quite distinct feel. The water is silky, almost thick, and there is a top warm layer that sits above […]
Shape of a shadow
Shadows are once again in my thoughts. Once you start looking out for them you begin to see just how many different types there are. Also, that they have little […]
A Space for the Bittern (Cotswold Water Park)
Tatlin’s vortex
This last weekend I attended at workshop on how water moves by Simon Charter. Fascinating stuff, and so much of it counter intuitive, such as that water isn’t a homogenous […]
Looking into my own shadow
Josepth Amato in his book Dust makes the point that in the West our obsession with the very small over the past century – germs, cells, genes and then on into […]
Me and my shadow
“For the moment let’s venture simply this: the shadow, this elegant enigma, is always with us… [it] is an inescapable consequence of our physicality. …Our clearest thoughts are those that […]
Transfixed by Cotán
There are a number of images that simply transfix me, I have no defence against them. This one by Juan Sánchez Cotán is one of them. I have never been […]
Data in the attic
This must have been one of the most bipolar introductions to a project I think I have encountered yet: the first day steeped in the lush ecology and the steep […]
The colour of data?
With the North Devon Biosphere project much in mind, I have just been up to London for the Data Landscapes symposium at Arts Catalyst. The most intriguing work on show […]
Sensing the invisible
It was William Herschel who first discovered infrared radiation, by splitting light using a prism and then measuring the temperature of the area just beyond the visible red light. Here […]
Searching for that Field
Today I have just been re-reading the essay by John Berger called ‘Field’. It is something I have never forgotten from the time I first read it. What really impressed […]
Merzbarn
Another post from the Lake District, this time from Langdale. I visited the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last Merzbau which is going to be restored through the Merzbarn project. Thinking about […]
