“I think we can relate to impermanence very viscerally. You don’t need much contemplative practice to start to notice how everything that we feel and think and experience, perceive and so on, is changing, is in motion. And the apparatus that we use to notice impermanence is also in motion, is also impermanent. And thatContinue reading “Riding the Wave: Surfing, Buddhism and Paul Cezanne”
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“Embracing the Inevitable: Exploring the Concept of Memento Mori in the Context of Life and Death”
Memento Mori; Remember You Must Die Reflections on my Mother’s Passing, Doha Airport, 5th May 2024 I have just returned from my second trip to Australia in 3 months..a record for me in my 22 years living in the UK. Sadly the most recent trip coincided with my mum’s death. Three weeks ago I receivedContinue reading ““Embracing the Inevitable: Exploring the Concept of Memento Mori in the Context of Life and Death””
Thought for Today
Some of you may have seen a recent post I put out on Facebook and Instagram where I juxtaposed a quote about intestines from Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami with a sculpture I made of the same motif? I’m so fascinated by the replication and mirroring of forms inside our bodies with thoseContinue reading “Thought for Today”
Time
I’ve been spending the past four days taking photos of these mannequin hands, copying Bridget Fiske’s fine gestures from our rehearsal last week. As with the mannequin dance based on Pena Bausch’s choreography, I am ending up with enough photos so create an animation much longer than the work I’m citing. In this process (andContinue reading “Time”
Deborah Hay my body the buddhist
A beautiful observation from Hay from a group dance class where there were a couple of accidents with candles being knocked over rand then the subsequent clean up by all the dancers….. “When I knocked over the candle I thought ”I my god,” but then I thought, ”Oh good. We all get to come togetherContinue reading “Deborah Hay my body the buddhist”
Euan Uglow
Enjoying the fabulous paintings of Euan Uglow today…still lives carved out in colour and just the perfect amount of tension between abstraction and representation. So incredibly satisfying to look at.
A counter-intuitive approach
Retard: delay or hold back in terms of progress or development. From the French retarder, Latin, retardare from re-‘back’ and tardus-‘slow’. I was thinking about my new project today, the seascape film, and what it is I am trying to achieve with this work. As with all my practice, there is is an allegiance toContinue reading “A counter-intuitive approach”
The diptych and autostereograms
I’ve been thinking about those Magic Eye images that were so popular in the 90’s and the kind of vision that is required to see the hidden motifs within the patterns. It’s all about diverging one’s vision so that each eye sees separately. Our natural tendency is to allow the brain to converge this doubleContinue reading “The diptych and autostereograms”
Alex Katz
“To see something in the present tense is very difficult. That is where the mystery and excitement is. “
Learning to Paint
At some level it feels like every painting is about learning how to paint (again) Like any profession it’s about developing skills and putting those skills to the test. One feels like a beginner every time one starts a new painting. Cezanne’s Portrait of his Son, is my favourite ever painting. In my eyes it’sContinue reading “Learning to Paint”
Laura van Tatenhove 