Month: December 2014
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Piatti e Martellate
Deterioration and/or… “the negotiations we are all involved in, unconsciously or otherwise, around who we feel we are and how we are seen”.* Up until recently I have lived with reasonable confidence that my personality was singular, but as I grow older I am finding this idea becoming more and more threadbare. Parts of me…
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Who Are You?
Who Are You ? is an exhibition of 14 works of art by Grayson Perry currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery until April 2015 (NB entrance is FREE!). It is a series of portraits which take us on a journey of discovery through the peculiarities of our different ways and forms of being…
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Wisdom and deterioration
“We are suspended in language such that we don’t know which way is up and which is down.” Niels Bohr.* I spent the weekend in Torbay Hospital. The catheter got blocked and then when it was freed by the district nurse she judged there was too much blood and that I should join the queue…
Categories (2024) are:
- ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
- CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
- DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
- IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
- LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
- OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
- PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
- POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
- REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
- SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
- STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
- TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
- YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.