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Part of the cover to the book Albion by Brenda Vale
: “The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced everyone that you only get one chance to improve society every five years. Didn’t succeed this time? You’ll have to wait another…”
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Photograph of field between Hassocks and Clayton, by the author
: “I’m going to be returning to talking about art and all the related stuff I usually talk about in the next few weeks, but until then I wanted to post a few pictures from another walk. In some ways these…”
Photograph of Devil’s Dyke, by the author
: “Yesterday Kate and I took the 77 bus from Brighton Station up to Devil’s Dyke. This bus only runs on weekends and public holidays and takes about 20 minutes to get out to Devil’s Dyke, stopping right…”
Photograph by the author
: “I’ve lifted the term “post-apocalyptic pastoral” from a book review by Goodreads user Terry from Toronto who effectively seeded my reading list by citing Richard Jefferies’ After London: or, Wild…”
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In the Dark Woods (detail) by Paul Watson
: “I have mentioned “The Weird” as a concept before, and I wanted to expand on the idea, particularly after reading We Demand An End to Capitalist Realism (which you really should read right now, it’s…”
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines is the latest piece in my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. It’s a drawing made in Sanguine pencil (and some white pencil) measuring 760mm × 560mm, and yes,…”
Detail from The High Priestess by the author
: ““If living in a new weird ontology is the only way for people to keep living, what do we want to keep of ourselves?” — Elvia Wilk, Toward a Theory of the New Weird This single sentence has…”
: “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…”
Previously unpublished photograph from the Keeper of the Archives shoot, by the author
: “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…”
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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…”
Read the rest of “Artistic block, Bacchanalia, and Jenny Greenteeth”…
: “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…”
: “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…”
Read the rest of “The Dream Eaters dance beneath the Crescent Moon”…
: “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,…”
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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…”
The Keeper of the Archives, a Dream Eater, and a Dryad
: “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…”
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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…”
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the Flower Child/Dionysus triptych, by the author
: “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…”
Detail from an unpublished shot from the Guardian of the Woodland Shadows photoshoot
: “As per last week’s post, this post is a series of minor updates - a format I’m experimenting with, more like a newsletter with various bits and pieces. This week’s artwork I spent yesterday on…”
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Life drawing by the author
: “This post is a series of minor updates as I’m trying to make best use of my new work-life regime (3-days a week doing my day-job, 2 days dedicated to artwork, and a 2 day weekend of relaxing, contemplating,…”
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: “Back in the 1970s there seemed to be such a myriad of ideas about potential shared futures, exploring all aspects of the political, social, and cultural. The aim of neoliberal capitalism of the 1980s onwards…”