This place felt like it really was on the edge of the wild world
Hartland Peninsula
FOT
Recent events in the long and illustrious history of Festival Object Trading (FOT) are here recorded. Customers, according to established traditions, used the FOT Exchange Rate Mechanism to add FOT currency to an object of their choice, which could then be used to purchase from a long list of Products, Events and Services. These Products, Events and Services include legal services, the world-renowned Mate Peg(TM), a Giraffe Stamp Licking Service, Festival Alarm Call Services, Festival SMS, the fantastic Sombrero Self-Portrait service, and the Lovers’ Cigarrette.
Travel
I’ve a series in development, early stages, that looks at travel: movement of the subject through space. It’s about the condition of being, the aesthetics, the emotional states we cross, rather than the politics as such. There will be text, drawing, ephemeral evidence of passage, at least I think there will be and that’s how I’m planing it at this stage.
..transit
Deir Mar Musa
The desert, and a monastery in Syria, dedicated to dialogue between Islam and Christianity.
Middle East
Stechford Project
In Stechford, Johnny O’Hanlon of Hamfisted! and I worked with members of Stechford Youth Network, Bierton Road Youth Centre and Birmingham Disability Resource Centre, to produce an 18m ‘window-mural’ for a new health centre.
An article in the Birmingham Mail has more information, as well as a sample of the work installed.
Here are portraits of some members of Bierton Road Youth Centre who took part:
Eden
Xanadu!
Just moved into a new studio-era, in Beautiful Digbeth, Downtown Bir ming HAM!
Superman
It’s categorically unrelated, but when I came across this picture, and all I could think about was the song from episode 4 of Psychoville: repellent, pathetic, sublime.
(apologies to Neil)