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Rereading through what I have written, it surprises me just how little I speak about the artist… the maker… the practice I pursue… my intentions. What I get is the teacher… instructor… provocateur… Why is this? Why this lack of […]
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It’s strange watching my year 11 GCSE pupils doing their 10 hour practical exam… to realize just how much I miss studio practice… the luxury of a solid block of time just to make Art… the culmination of research, experimentation […]
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My whole mood has changed… aaahg!!!… I was so up for writing positively when I started but have just deleted my opening paragraph… What is it with these people? Why this deliberate, determined push to undermine our subject? We really […]
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I think for now that I’ve had my fill of feelings… I want to concentrate on the good things… Time to change the focus… I sent off my proposal for the National Sculpture Prize today… Soooo out of my comfort […]
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THIS IS NOT ME! I need to break this… step away from… get back to Bo… I’ve always written to release. I was told time ago that it’s a great way of clearing the decks. This has proved to be […]
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I don’t really know how much I should write here anymore… I have been warned that this could get me into trouble… legally handcuffed. A sense of fear prevails at work… an apathy… the stench of defeat… people broken and […]
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It takes me time to consider and formalise the words that I place here. Seldom is this a spontaneous process for me… so I’m already pondering the wisdom of New Years resolutions… but I recognise that as sloth, sitting on […]
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Compelled… A fresh haircut…Clean shaven and bathed… The dogs walked… sunset observed stood in field; purple orange cloud, framed by clear emerald blue as front moves away revealing clear, star studded newness… dusk descends… ghost mist rising from the cooling […]
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You don’t learn from what you know… you learn from what you don’t know! Obvious really, but oft forgotten me thinks… I forgot… took for granted… thought I was safe… secure with the knowledge of a lifetimes gathering… Complacency. I […]
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At some stage I guess I need to explain my absence?… That’s not easy, because self-esteem gets in the way… I don’t want to be ill thought of… but I have to be honest… I am the example… Exemplar again. […]
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It’s been a while… And I know as I sit here and type this, come the end, this might be a futile effort that just ends up in the trash… unpublished yet exorcised… we shall see what courage remains… I […]
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I guess at some stage I need to start writing again… GCSE work marked and moderated… depending on boundaries, my best set of results yet… OFSTED departed and the carnage they’ve caused beginning to settle… can’t comment on that at […]