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Reading: Different Scales
One of the other things we noticed whilst travelling around Reading: An Open Gallery, was that many works we encountered caused us to investigate the scale of either ourselves or the exhibit we were experiencing. Take, for instance, the chairs positioned on the pavement outside the Autistic Shop. In this shot they are obscured behind […]
Animal Art in Reading part 2:
Cat and Mouse, performance piece, My House, Reading. In this terrifying performance, the vulnerability of life and the brutality of nature were stunningly evoked. Appearing as if from nowhere the tableau of The Cat playing with a plainly terrified Mouse materialised in my garden like a vision from hell. The place of man in the […]
Animal Art in Reading
Continuing with the theme of Reading: An Open Gallery, I wanted today to look at representations of animals in Reading. Most intriguing was this sign, hanging beside the Rising Sun Arts Centre on Silverstreet, Reading. Beware of the dog, paint, wood, site-specific installation, Silverstreet, Reading, Artist Unknown. The handmade qualities of the sign coupled with […]
Reading: An Open Gallery
I am fascinated by the idea that the context in which we view things changes our relationship to them. Take, for instance, Duchamp’s Fountain or any of the exercises in Roger Pol Droit’s 101 experiments in the philosophy of everyday life. Whether recontextualising a urinal as Art or Becoming Music as a philosophical exercise, a […]
Finding Anna: A Red House Mouse Tail
Yesterday Mark and I came up with this video. It is the accompanying video for The Mouse Balloon, which – providing the mice have made accurate meteorological calculations for their trip – ought to be arriving with Anna in Weymouth this afternoon…
The new presence
We have a new creature in the home. He came to us via the Blue Cross Pet Adoption Scheme, is fiendishly difficult to photograph and wants me to stroke him rather than write this post. Yes; we have acquired a cat. I promise not to fill this blog with cute photos of him, but a […]
Oomska Tuesdays
On our recent jaunt in Sussex, Kate reminded me of the genius word Oomska. Oomska is a word used by Uncle Monty in the British Film Classic Withnail & I in the context of a wellington-boot buying expedition. At some point in the film Uncle Monty asserts that ‘We can’t possibly have you walking around […]
Mystery object revealed
It is time to reveal the truth about the mystery blueness in the last post. You see Mark’s niece left some little mice here, last time she stayed with us. I found them all nesting under a pillow on our cornerseat: I quickly discovered that – being an adventurous bunch – they had ambitions to […]
The Internet is amazing!
Thank you everyone for the kind comments re: my brief Radio 4 appearance on Questions, Questions yesterday. It was very exciting to listen to my very own jingle playing on Radio 4 and to hear the washing up recordings getting a mention on National Radio. Furthermore, I was very excited to learn of the origins […]
Domestic unbliss / washing up…
You may remember the code I devised for ‘washing up types’ many months ago whilst working on the Fantastical Reality Radio Show with Mundane Appreciation?According to that scale I position myself resolutely as a type C washer-upper; i.e. I dislike doing it, I leave it until it absolutely must be done (i.e. there is nothing […]
Apples and Pea-tatoes
Our apple tree has produced its annual glut of fruit and we have gone crazy making stuff from the fruit. Today we had apple and cider sauce with parsnip mash and duck for tea, and baked an apple harvest cake. Tomorrow, parsnip and apple soup are planned as well as an invented trout and apple […]
Volcanoes
Until I went to Naples I had never been anywhere near live Volcanoes. It was very exciting to experience volcanic landscapes; to listen to the bubbling mud at Solfatara and to hear water steaming out of the hot ground at 150 and 160*C temperatures. I made lots of recordings of the steam at Solfatara but […]
Collage
Yesterday I was helping Sam with his homework. His assignment was to make an all-blue collage. I loaded up the dining room table with blue goodness; envelope interiors, old offcuts of J-cloths used in Fantastical Reality Radio Show productions, airmail stickers, tissue paper from my birthday package that Caro sent me (I save *all* the […]
rainbows…
The dyed yarn is all drying off. It has been a very exciting but intensive few days! What a lot of boiling water, rinsing yarn, drying yarn, weighing out mordants, chopping up leaves, cleaning mud and spiders off things and lugging big kettles of water around has been going on! Hats off to Katie for […]
Unmitigated Joy
Imagine my delight when a parcel arrived for me, unexpectedly, this morning. What joy was inside! A Yorkshire Tea Box plus a booklet containing all the Yorkshire Tea merchandise I can exchange my tokens for: Bonus tokens: This AMAZING yarn From The Yarn Yard: and a postcard featuring shed/caravan image of joy: Thanks so much […]
WOW
The generosity of The Internet and my blog readers never ceases to amaze me. I was in two minds about whether or not to post about wardrobe mess, fashion stress etc., yesterday and I am glad that the ‘just do it’ impetus won. You have all given me a lot to think about and some […]
Messy Tuesdays, and Thrifting a Holiday Wardrobe
*WARNING: contains Some Ranting* Mark actually pointed out that this ought to be my Messy Tuesdays post image for today. My wardrobe often gets into this kind of state. I find this reflective of my sense of overwhelm and distress surrounding clothes. Questions concerning how I should dress myself in relation to the larger issues […]
20 miles
I was very excited to discover this sign. I felt creative Nirvana was evidently up ahead. Alas, it refers instead to boats on the Kennet and Avon Canal. But I made Mark take a photo of me experiencing All Craft Elation anyway. Before yesterday I had never knowingly walked 20 miles in a day. Driving […]
08 08 08
Today is the official start of the Olympics and therefore the Ravelympics. I have kit and projects, and I am all warmed up thanks to yesterday’s squash-knitting exercises. All I have to do is start. I also participated in an 08 08 08 swap. The deal was to send 8 postcards in exchange for 8 […]
Because sometimes you just have to…
…be very, very silly. Thanks for the pattern, Gewerken.
My recipe for happiness.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this article by Liz Hunt in the Telegraph this week, citing women like Jane Brocket and their lifestyles as the root of modern woman’s unhappiness. According to the article, books like The Gentle Art of Domesticity set an impossibly high standard for women and contribute to our general sense […]
Birthdayness.
I had a lovely birthday and can’t quite believe I’m now 28… it feels like the time between each year just shrinks every year. This is basil I planted this spring; the seeds were a gift to me last year from my friend Caro, who also gave me this wicked birthday card: …and the bag […]
The many gifts of today.
Today has been full of joy. Firstly, Mariee Sioux’ album, downloaded on a Napster free trial, is a gem of an album. Her brand of folk music is the perfect thing for knitting to and she has photos of her feral child sitting amongst piles of jam jars and ladies spinning on her myspace which […]
Easterliness…
So after Blogger *ate* my last few posts, I’m tentatively starting again; this time with a nice picture of the kitchen tile I glazed, featuring Monkl. It was a good Easter weekend, starting with a creative Friday night spent making a tea-cosy out of felt. The tea-cosy ended up fitting with a general kitchen decor […]
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