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Gleaned Fragments from A Discarded Copy of Aristotle’s Poetics Let us discuss the art of poetry in general and its species. Some people use the medium of colour and shape to produce imitations Others do this by means of voice. […]

scale relative to body, to paper, to wall, to space documenting details, zooming in, coming close to the surface, bringing you upclose by talking a still-image, but then as photographic image this detail loses its context, the space around it, […]

Damp, not actually raining at the moment, but mild and humid. Flies are a nuisance. Apparently the biting midge season is later on – but I’m not going to take any chances and cover myself in midge repellant. Not much […]

Bakani and I played with the image of a blind spot, projecting out of the back of the body, the central spinal line. This spot could vary in height between waist and back of head and in distance from the […]

Drawing as a way of knowing, but also as a way of forgetting, even erasing. Memories – and remembering – are unstable Knowledge is unstable, on shifting ground. Returning to yesterday. Paul (Dance4) watching the drawing process wondered to what […]

Split – definition:  divide, disunite, separate, sever, bisect, partition, tear asunder, cleave, rend Last week I checked on the current state of ‘Bread and Roses’ , an ongoing piece of work which is encased and protected in a plastic box in […]

talking to Paul from Dance4 today in the studio. he wondered what the role of memory was in the activity of drawing from the back drawing backward behind. Traces are left on the wall/paper and the body too retains traces […]

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This may be the last week of excavation in Trench Y.  I therefore need to complete collecting material on it.   This morning they were clearing away earth and rubble to get to the ‘natural’ earth, using shovels and mattocks […]

I was decisive this morning, packed my rucksack and walked straight down to the over grown area at the far end of the field (the farthest point from the dump). I come here and pretend it’s a little forest. I […]

As we plan our exhibition together at Spitalfields Studios in November, Karen Wood and I are looking at how we can invite people into our collaboration, to share our working processes of noticing and recording. This is in part informed […]

I got a text saying ‘are you coming to meeting?’ …….. 5.13pm. At 6.25 pm …………. I read it and replied saying what meeting was that then and where was it? As things became clearer on social media over the […]

The sun came out and shone all day. It was even hot enough to shed some of my many layers of clothing. Spirits were high on site and the dig got going in earnest. I spent the day at Trench […]

I did two back-to-back workshops with KS1 at Mickelhurst Primary School today, with thanks to previous Contents May Vary co-curator Martha Distin-Webster for the invite. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and I talked them through the process of making […]

Balance is key when writing up a research study, deciding on what to include and what to leave out: how to communicate survey data, information from interviews and insights from existing literature and knowledge. It’s a complex and demanding job […]