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grids
Welsh poetry has a system of rhymes, alliterations and counter-stresses called cynghanedd (being 1000 years older than English, there are strong roots beneath that rubble strewn ground). Despite being a bit of a mathematical formula, and fairly easy to follow, […]
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the most public art
(This is what I wrote, originally, as my introductory blurb … but it was too long, so I’ve shunted it here, with a few amendments). Architecture tends to draw its practitioners into a narrowly focussed view of the world based on […]
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triangles
Ah, well, you see… its like this. Did one, then another and then … well.. time, sort of, just … went. I’m still in a sort of Bermuda Triangle, between art, architecture and real life. There are ideas “in development” […]
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collaboration
I have collaborated with many people over the years – some more successfuly than others. Some on my side of the table and some on the other. The experience has ranged from the perfunctory, task oriented pooling of knowledge and […]
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500 shades of grey
I’ve been sweating out a new version of my artist’s statement, which, of course, needs to be simply expressed and concise. It’s not easy is it? If you’re trying to avoid using technical or specialised terms, then using plain language raises […]
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paying the bills
Generating an income is always on the agenda, isn’t it? Whether you’re stacking shelves at the proverbial supermarket, teaching or administering the creative efforts of others, the standard advice is always to do something completely different so that you can […]
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Sensing Spaces – a visit
first published on my website huwmeredyddowen.com april 2014 However you define art, making it involves risk, something that is beaten out of architects from their very beginnings. So does that mean that architects cannot be artists? You could argue that architects […]