
…of pneumatic tubes, Naiant X-X microphones, badgemaking, turbans, bricks, pigeons and phonography.

…of walking, recording cows, making badges, meeting beasties, and Walk2012.

…of KNITSONIK, stationery, design, customisation, artistry, knitting, sounds and Prick Your Finger.

…of SLRs, frameworks, ways of seeing, shutterspeeds, things I espied, blackbirds, woolstaplers, technology, wisteria and brothers.

Announcing A NEW PROJECT: KNITSONIKTM KNITSONIKTM is preparing for its first residency at the Prick Your Finger gallery between 4th – 12th May, 2011. What is this? The KNITSONIKTM residency is an intensive study period during which Felicity Ford will stay in the imaginatively fertile and woolly environment of the Prick Your Finger Haberdashery & […]

Readers of this blog will know how much I depend on and love my technology. The Edirol R09 which has been the foundation of my sound-recording practice for 4 years or so now is worn on all the edges; the buttons are smooth; and the complex battery/SD card mechanism at its base has lost some […]

For today’s (late) Messy Tuesdays post I wish to dwell momentarily on the mess associated with my packaging skills, or – put more bluntly – my inclination towards making parcels which have been strengthened with sellotape and gaffer tape to the point that they have become unsightly. Ugly Parcels, if you will. Let us dwell […]

I have learned from my copy of “Waterloo Sunrise” that the district in which I live is called Katesgrove, and that this area of Reading once housed three kilns from whence the many bricks required to build the town’s Victorian terraced houses came. Our search for the redbrick history of Reading begins at Katesgrove Lane, […]