tattoosandanewproject

The next set of tattoos with the wonderful @jims_skins – really pleased with the way these lines work with the hand. Working on a great project with Stowupland Secondary School and Red Gables through Jubilant! Looking at the potential of an adjacent space to the school. We are asking lots of questions to map and measure what is there to determine what could be. The book that is being created as part of the project's legacy is developing and will be a great manual for future conversations. A night at Snape to watch Anna Lapwood playing an organ on the stage - a rare occurrence. I loved her talking about the idea of 'voicing the organ' to the space and her interpretation of Britten's Four Seasons Interludes was fascinating. Also had the chance to check out again Laurence Edward's work around the site which is always a pleasure. Meanwhile onto screens watched The Lazarus Project which was full of complicated time travel rules - back into Better Call Saul with season 6 which is both dark and complicated. Just finished Jarvis Cocker's book Good Pop Bad Pop - it's a gentle ramble through some easy going reminiscing. 

jabjabjabbutstillitcomes

After 2 years of careful rule following, of mask wearing, of hand washing, of social distancing, of jab, jabbing, and jabbed I have had over a week, so far of covid. Whilst wiping out the whole week of work this has meant quite an impressive 4-day headache, a colossal sore throat and among other things has lead to a loss of taste, general woozyness and weakness. How did my eyes get to ache? But in the positive column a by-product of sleeping outside in the day has been the beginning of a summer tan and in the last couple of evenings an easing of symptoms but an inability to sleep has meant I have read and read. The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada an interesting and slightly reminisce led book of a childhood that wasn't mine but returned me to another time. The parallel experience of the Asian children of my youth is exposed in a thoughtful and open way. https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/13904/the-go-between-osman-yousefzada-book-review-author-interview-202 The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, the story of Rudolf Vrba's life by Jonathan Freeland was told with exquisite precision. What an extraordinary life. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/08/the-escape-artist-by-jonathan-freedland-review-the-first-jews-to-escape-auschwitz Reading it has meant that I went on to watch episode 20 of World at War, reliving the fear I felt as a child, the burning faces within the opening titles. Whilst it was fascinating to see a man whose life I had just read about living and talking the death camp footage was as shocking as the day I first saw it and images of men marching through streets with burning torches, and the talk of purity and nationalism had a disturbing resonance. So, then there is the obvious move onto rereading Primo Levi's If This is a Man, more detail of pain and human degradation but also strength. Onto screens - Coda, a beautiful feel-good story, smart, clever, and funny. Bull, a brutal revenge tale with a twisting reveal, wince inducing and a little traumatizing. Meddler, a tale of loss and connection, sad and yet warming. Hustle, Adam Sandler is on a roll, fast paced and believable, especially enjoyed the travel montage. Chivalry – the tone of the series sometimes feels random, each episode feels almost separate from the next - there is a handbrake turn of a direction in episode 3 - the whole thing pervades a sense of unease and discomfort - which I think is the point. Fresh – it has comedy thriller on the box but I struggled to find laughs with the level of oppressive activity, the central premise is a believable, interesting internet niche market idea but ultimately sad and dark.

todayortomorrow

I have a flag in Saxmundham High Street – as part of celebrations artstation invited a few people to design and submit a design https://theartstation.uk/event/sax-flags/ …t a couple of interesting local show – Brian Dawn Chalkley at The Cut was a joy and a surprise https://thecut.org.uk/events/brian-dawn-chalkley/ The show at Snape as part of this years festival was good - Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith have some work dotted around the space. Laurence has a couple of very special new pieces that are really worth the trip to the space; a boat/fence/bodies hybrid piece and a small body trapped in a eel trap.Onto screens – Interceptor was what it says on the tin - So to Pistols - Danny Boyle is responsible for another travesty but for a different reason. Brexit was obviously his fault as his excellent direction of the Olympic ceremony convinced us to go through with the illusion of Brexit by creating a glorious fantastical fairy-tale Britain where we believed we were more important than we actually were and of course doing it all on our own without the support of others or underpinned by our dark history of slavery and colonialism ....at its best Pistols is punk panto when it's not unnecessarily dallying with art school knob twiddling video techniques, seemingly as a way of attempting to gain relevance.....oh well.

foldedpharmacology

Working with some articulated cardboard structures redesigned, with a new intention, this time looking to explore the complex world of receptor pharmacology. The body is a truly amazing thing - actions as a result of actions.