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after years of making these dense fluid snake chains out of laboriously hand-cut stainless steel, i recently made an entirely wood version for a small body of work that sits alongside shaun gladwell’s show at sherman contemporary art foundation….
i am actually writing about 2 different things here – where to find the best short dark espresso to get your brain moving into higher realms, and, the loveliest languid old school coffeehouses. two very different but somehow complementary notions….
i have been in vienna for 5 months on study exchange for my phd in fine arts, and on the side, i have travelled around europe a little and found myself at some stunning places. i have been taking lots of pictures, and i love black and white film.
excellent doco by austrian filmaker joerg burger that explores fundamental metaphysical questions underlying our current scientific, cosmological and epistemological research. aesthetically, sonically, and intellectually engaging, with provocative interviews across a range of scientific and humanitarian concerns. unfortunately it seems very hard to see outside of the film festival circuit…. details of the movie are at mischief films – i am waiting patiently […]
lovely time doing a daggy woodcarving week in the austrian alps over christmas with beautiful people in a beautiful place – yay!!!
the slynx is an exotic and fantastic dystopian novel written in a rich russian prose that staggers between naive fairytale and the vilest of satire. while the language may take a few pages to normalise, its effect is profound and spellbinding. throughout the tale’s cruel slamming of human nature, it remains gloriously optimistic, and i have […]
