Walking with a canine companion on an exploration of place, space and self
What is the golden rule of storytelling? I'm hoping to find out when I see Clare Murphy perform in Bristol soon, thanks to Blindboy bringing my attention to her work; https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/the-art-of-storytelling As a child I wrote a lot of stories. I don't know where they are now - I think they got lost in the… Continue reading The Owl in the Picture
Dig deep, linger longer, tell stories, make alliances. Sometimes small things seem like big things and big things disguise themselves as small things, and we become obsessed with badgers (maybe that’s just me!) My aim this autumn was to write something that's light and quirky, with no particular agenda (other than badgers), and see what… Continue reading Badger
My Dad once wanted to conquer the waves. He was very strong, possibly the strongest person I've ever known. Perhaps this was his burden to carry... until he couldn't any longer. He fought cancer for over 10 years. He's not coming back to life this time. I'm sure that's hard for us all (his family… Continue reading “The end is where we start from.”
This could have been called 'Following the Shards of Light'. I deliberated over this for a long time. Shard implies sharp, a fragment, brittle, broken, dangerous (maybe), a weapon. Remnants of demolition - or war - or a bar fight. It is also a building in London of course. Not really the angle I was going for, but in the… Continue reading Following the Shafts of Light
Psychodography 