Various early-October musings
: “Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website. …”
Blogposts tagged as “Musings”
One Year in Hastings
: “I moved to Hastings a year ago today, so it seems like a good time to look back on how it's gone so far. …”
Week Notes: mid-June, 2025
More strangeness from Hastings’ antique shops. Out of shot are a small coffin and a stuffed badger. Photograph by the author.
: “Here in Hastings the summer is starting to manifest itself in the form of warmer and sunnier days and, consequently, the number of tourists is starting to rise. That’s good for all the local small…”
Acid Renaissance - June 2025 update
A previously unpublished photograph from The Bride of the Sun
: “As I try to pull myself out of my current bout of artistic block and resume work on my Acid Renaissance series, I think it’s worthwhile—if only for myself!—trying to put together a new…”
About the web in 2024
: “A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not this day. …”
My plans for 2024
Life-drawing from March 2023 by the author
: “I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. …”
Blogrolls (reprise)
: “Last week I posted The return of the blogroll (and more), and — typically! — almost immediately afterwards I found out that many people have already been discussing blogrolls over the past few…”
The return of the blogroll (and more)
: “When I completely redesigned this site in September/October of this year I spent a lot of time thinking about this blog section - not just in terms of design and layout, but also about how it needed…”
Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
Vauxhall Bridge over the river Thames, with Aquarius House, St George Wharf, London. Photograph by the author.
: “This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. …”
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On being a Serious Artist
My studio (which is also my living room)
: “A lot of online advice for artists is framed around the trappings of corporate capitalism: building your brand, hitting self-imposed targets, maximising sales through targeted marketing, and so on. …”
Writing as a Practitioner, not an Academic
Detail from my photograph “The Historian” (2019)
: “A couple of comments over the past year-or-so have made me think about how I write here. …”
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Individualism over Community
Detail from the 2021 drawing Lamentation, by the author
: “Much has already been said about the championing of individualism over community by the likes of Thatcher and others from the 1980s onwards. It is — and continues to be — a weapon used to divide…”
Change is a Constant
: “It’s a cool clear morning here on the southern coast. Sparrows perching on the phone lines, distant cries of seagulls. It feels so calm, but it shouldn’t be. The tiny fracture lines in the world…”
Projecting Narratives in the Spaces Between
: “Prompted by some idle musing on Twitter the other day: …”
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No one dreams of England’s future any more
Still from Quatermass TV series
: “No one seems to dream of England’s future any more, just its imagined past. When the post-modernists proclaimed (again) “the end of history” what they should have been announcing, in England at…”
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Re-enchantment, Metaphoric Density, and Deep Myth
Bark mask by the author
: “Shortly before Christmas David Southwell (he of Hookland Guide fame) and I met up for a few festive beers in London. We spoke about many things, but one topic that has been buzzing around my head…”
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Masks and Photography, Ritual and Film
Masks made by the author
: “Over on Twitter yesterday I posted a series of tweets that, merged together, went something like this: …”
Patience and Serendipity
: “The unplanned suspension of work on the Book of the Erinyes over the past couple of months (due in no small part to moving house) has proved serendipitous — I’ve been thinking a lot about the…”