Clik here to view.
Quick post today
Quick post today. This little album comes from one of our Chinese students. They give us presents like this quite a lot. This one is a book of paper cutouts of signs for Chinese horoscopes. My...
View ArticleClik here to view.
13 Notebooks for Walter Benjamin
I have been doing some work on a project that I made last year in which I created thirteen notebooks as a tribute to Walter Benjamin, who is one of my favourite theorists. I’ve blogged about Benjamin...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walter Benjamin and Ways of Seeing
While I have been producing some academic work on Benjamin, I had another look at the notebooks I made last year. This is a quick post of pictures to show some of the things that I find fascinating...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What I did at the weekend
Sometimes life is awful and other times the gods take your blessing bucket, fill it up, press it down and then put a bit more in. This is the case for me with what is often a deeply boring...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ballgowns at the V&A
On Monday, Lisa, a new friend and colleague, and I met in London, and, as part of our time together, went to the ballgown exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. We were more interested in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
St Laura and the Nuits blanches
On Friday night I found myself completely unable to sleep: wide awake, thoughts racing through my head. I tried all those relaxation exercises, but after a while I gave in and got up. I went...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Something of a thought for the day.
Quick post today, as a pile of marking has just shown up. I was idly leafing through a rather nice book with an awful title: Living the Creative Life by Rice Freeman-Zachery, and I came across...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Project: Benjamin’s ‘Destructive Character’ Art Book
Sadly, I own and wear one of these… Although I haven’t been doing much stitching or anything else really recently, I have started work on thinking about a new project. I am planning a conference paper...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nothing Christmassy here
I am at my mother’s for Christmas and so brought some hand sewing with me to do so that we can talk as we stitch. This is a piece from the Destructive Character project I blogged about recently....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Drag Doll Workbook
On my travels this week I have had a lot of positive feedback about the Drag Doll, so I thought you might like to see some of the pages from my workbook. I did a fair bit on separate pages and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deconstructed stitching
This is the first in a series of small pieces which I intend to bind into an artists book. The book will be a bit experimental and will deal with Walter Benjamin’s very short piece of writing, ‘The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What did we learn at the weekend?
I am surrounded almost all day every day with people who are mad for learning, the lifelong variety and the skills acquisition kind. So, it seems only in the spirit of things to reflect on what I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why didn’t I know about this shop?
I have driven past this little shop which is on Stokes Croft many times and thought it looked interesting, but it is a bit too close to a rum part of Bristol for me to want to go in. I thought it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Access Art – brilliant resource
I have been trying desperately to finish off various things in progress before the start of the new term, so my blogging has suffered a bit. One of the things has been the text for my turn as I am...
View ArticleClik here to view.
War collar number two
The second collar in my series of wearable armour for corporate women is this blue neckpiece. The idea here is to make a protective piece. So, according to the sort of folklore I was brought up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Latest additions to my Laura Ashley project
First of all, I am very sorry about the long gap between this post and the last one. I know a high proportion of people like to read the blog on Sunday afternoons, and I haven’t been providing you...
View Article