The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Valuing Reality
Equipment WIN/FAIL
I was assisted before setting off for the West Highland Way by Trail Magazine’s snappily-titled Slash Pack Weight feature last month. With a strapline of Climb More Hills, this enthusiastically presented feature provided a good mixture of entertainment and sound advice for myself and Mark while we planned our trip and invested in items that […]
The West Highland Way
I am back after walking all 95 miles of the West Highland Way. Mark and I did the route in 6 days and not the 7 days recommended for novice long-distance walkers like ourselves and we both insisted on carrying all our gear with us, so today we are walking around like two very, very […]
August Online…
July offline was very eventful and the experiment was wholly successful. I didn’t keep myself 100% Internet free, I must confess. Missing some blogs just too much to bear, plus some necessary work-related admin and a few important fact-finding missions lured me into cyberspace on several occasions but the hours of staring at a computer-screen […]
July Offline
See you in August!
July Offline, Woolfest etc.
Thanks so much everyone for all the birthday wishes. It’s really been a magical few days and I am already feeling settled into my 30s. I’ve been busy enjoying my birthday gifts since yesterday and today I made a cyber-zombie from a book called Creepy Cute Crochet which I was given by the rest of […]
The Birthday BBQ
In a few days I will turn 30. But since weekdays are rubbish for parties and I’m tied up next weekend with secret adventures, my family gathered in Croydon in my old ‘hood to have the party of all parties yesterday. For some people 30 doesn’t seem to be such a big deal, but for […]
Perfect Bank Holiday Weekend…
After spending Saturday morning in a vague malaise online and editing sound-recordings, I decided to stop kidding myself that I was going to get any work done on the podcasts when I could plainly see whole families playing together in the sunshine outside my house. I tidied my bedsit, and headed off into town to […]
Mending the pipes
You may remember the dripping faucet in my bedsit that inspired this artwork? Record the sound that keeps you awake at night, Felicity Ford, 2009, pillow, permanent ink, faucet stamp, pillow-speakers, CD player, audio recording of permanently looped dripping tap sound, title and basic concept taken from Learning to love you more by Miranda July […]
Karen and the schedule of the week
A few weeks ago I interviewed Karen of Karen magazine. It was a real privilege to be able to visit Karen at her home, to meet her partner, her cat and her friends, and to experience the locale in which Karen magazine is so deeply rooted. And it was marvellous to meet Karen herself and […]
Mother’s Day 2009
Maybe it was thinking about my Mum when I made The Hippy Pie that did it; maybe it was all the support and love she has given me during The Horribleness of the past couple of months, but for whatever reason, Mother’s Day seemed especially important to me this year so I made Bam* this, […]
Reading and Writing
I need to read more books. The pleasure of physical paper, pages and the smell of print is amazing and something I often forget in my Love affair with The Internet. Last night I read most of Nicholson Baker’s A Box of Matches. In it, he talks in a soothingly repetitive way about the ritual […]
Assignment
A few visitors to Love is Awesome have quizzed me on the reasoning behind the assignment format. I have thought about this quite a lot during the past week and am forming a few ideas about my decisions. I suppose I want to present a lot of ideas in ways that convey both the meanings […]
Love Assignment #4: Find beauty in the city
This assignment comes from Anna Francis, who runs and manages there is beauty in the city on the project blog. You too can take part in ‘there is beauty in the city’ by visiting the blog and writing to Anna. Alternatively, you can pick up a magnet pack from the Love Is Awesome exhibition, as […]
A spoonful of sugar
Today I received my first bit of post at the new address. In the 1990s, road-protestors discovered a British law that says that once a letter is successfully delivered to a dwelling, that address is established as a home and the resident dwelling therein becomes entitled to the same rights of access and protection as […]
Colonisation
The illicit broadband theft continues, so I am going to show you around while the door is open. I am amazed at the swift way that knitted cakes, dotty things, woollen joy and handmade wonderment have begun to consume my new environment. I wonder if my stuff breeds in the night to make more stuff, […]
Cakes and Biscuits
Hurrah for the random Internet with which I am presently blessed. Since I haven’t lost the connection, I am going to write about cakes and biscuits as I have been thinking about them recently. Some of the Things that I moved to this home from my last include a (by now inedible) special-edition cake acquired […]
A good start
I have somehow managed to find an unsecured wi-fi network that is giving me The Internet in my very own home. I do not know how long this lucky bit of joy will last, so will keep this post brief. My posts are going to be quite intermittent until I figure out an affordable way […]
The Dream of Felix begins
…with a new set of keys and a tiny kitchen with a busted fridge and empty shelves, to fill and little cupboards, all wooden and 1970s and warm in colourway.
Everyone should have a Lara
There is a great Ryan Adams song called ‘Wish I had me a Sylvia Plath’ (lyrics here) which I remembered yesterday when I was thinking about Lara. I do not think Lara and Sylvia Plath are very similar at all in real life as Lara is a sunnier sort of a person than Plath and […]
Love Assignment #2: make a flier of your day
I am going to make the flier tonight, but as an exercise to warm me up and give me some illustration ideas, I thought I would get the text up here. Wake up. Lara’s House, 7am. Have overslept. Cold, dark, winter. COFFEE. I leave. Oxford Express to London. Knitting Hourglass sweater until travel-sick at Hillingdon. […]
LOVE IS AWESOME Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOVE IS AWESOME OPENS ON VALENTINE’S DAY IN READING, BERKSHIRE Artists Felicity Ford, Rachael Matthews, Stavroula Kounadea and Emmylou Laird are opening their show on Valentine’s day 2009 to offer new perspectives on the idea that LOVE IS AWESOME. LOVE IS AWESOME is a mischievous, offbeat celebration of the awesomeness of love. […]
Personal Treasures
Object play – for adults as well as children – engages the heart as well as the mind; it is a source of inner vitality…during all stages of life we continue to search for objects that we can experience as both within and outside of the self. – Sherry Turkle, What makes an object evocative? […]
Start as you mean to go on
I was lucky enough this year to get up to the Highlands between Christmas and New Year for a few days of serious walking. Mark and I have been talking for some months now about how we want to get in better shape and about how happy walking actually makes us. I have also been […]
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