Paul Watson’s notes on ongoing artwork, giving an insight into the creative process.
I’ve been thinking lately about woods and meadows and the edges of lakes, places of importance in my own personal mythology that feed into my artwork. So far in my Acid Renaissance series these places have only manifested at a distance, distilled into human figures as genii locorum, spirits…
In a recent blogpost Ellen Rogers wrote of her current Gnosis project: It’s taken me 4 years to try and articulate what this project is about, but I felt like I was repeatedly going back to square one… Until recently all I really knew was that I was blindly following a feeling that…
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It’s been a month since my last update on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork, and as I mentioned in that post I wasn’t planning on doing any artwork for the project over August because I had too many other things on and needed to “recharge” anyway. The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance…
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Back in April Warren Ellis referenced the Republic of Letters to talk about email newsletters, a Republic of Newsletters. The next 18 months will see a small explosion of print zines — a Republic of Zines — about “the Weird”, including @RitualsZine which I’m working on myself. No,…
Being the latest of a (now traditionally unpunctual) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Dream Eaters I mentioned the Dream Eaters in my last update, but I’m mentioning them again because I’ve now got the set of Dream Eaters A5-sized postcards printed and…
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Prompted by some idle musing on Twitter the other day: The photographic elements of my Acid Renaissance series could be seen as frozen moments from a strange spot-lit performance - part play, part dance, part ritual - from which you (the viewer) must infer the wider narrative. I’ve never…
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I’m starting to see more people talking about the need to imagine the future, which is both fantastic and absolutely necessary. What follows is a series of quotes and outward links with some of my own opinions interspersed as segues between them, or, as this format was called back in the…
Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Keeper of the Archives In late June I took the photographs for The Keeper of the Archives. I had a great deal of trouble narrowing my choice down to one image from this shortlist of three: So…
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On August 17th/18th 2019 I will be taking part in The Delaware Road: Ritual & Resistance, with a combination of an exhibition and artwork stall inside a secret military base near Stonehenge. The Delaware Road : Ritual & Resistance is a unique festival of music, art, film & theatre featuring…
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I’m continuing to experiment with the format of a blogpost as a series of minor updates. It suits the hectic task-juggling I’ve been doing lately. So with no further ado: Artwork completed since last time I’ve been working away on my Acid Renaissance series. I still haven’t found…