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A previously unpublished photograph from The Bride of the Sun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 explanation…”
: “Cormac Pentecost’s latest issue of the Temporal Boundary Newsletter chimed with me in many ways. For those who haven’t come across this newsletter before, Cormac runs Temporal Boundary Press, a…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm from…”
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Scene from season two of Andor. Source: Disney+
: “For obvious reasons this post contains spoilers for all the episodes in Andor season 2. I wrote about season one of Andor back in April 2023, and wrote about whether a capitalist corporation like Disney…”
My copy of the festival brochure, the bark mask I wore, and the lucky leaf I managed to get after the Jack had been slain
: “This May Day bank holiday was my first attendance as a local at the Hastings’ Jack in the Green festival - although I had previously travelled from Hove in 2023 to see it and posted some notes and photographs…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “At ten o’clock this morning my front door bell rang. Outside was a woman with a dog on a lead—probably heading down to the nearby park to walk the dog—and a small bundle of fur in her hands: I found…”
The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author.
: “I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: Out & about On Sunday I visited Battle Abbey, which was built…”
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author.
: “Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. I’m just collating personal websites of people in Hastings…”
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: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “Last month I published my contribution to the UK Government’s ongoing Copyright and AI Consultation. I forgot to mention in that post that I had also written to my MP Helena Dollimore (Labour and…”
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: “Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed several people from the US who run personal websites making or pondering decisions about whether they should move their websites onto a non-US server. And what’s…”
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: “I’m starting to feel that — finally! — some thoughts are starting to come together for some new artwork. It’s been a particularly uncreative past few months for me, so this comes as a very welcome…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
: “The following are my submissions to the UK Government’s Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The background document which informs the questions and details the various options can…”
: “I’m delighted to say that I’ll be taking part in the Cultural Futures Conference 2025, organised by Dee Chainey-Jones, who some of you may know as one of the co-founders of the #FolkloreThursday global…”
Life-drawing 1 March 2024, by the author. Sanguine Pencil on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper.
: “I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! At the time of writing this the current recommended rate from the Register…”
: “This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…”
My studio
: “We’re two weeks into the new year, but I feel like I’m still in first gear: there has been no “hitting the ground running” — or any other similar corporate-speak — here. In addition to the…”