Category Archives: art

Cherem – for Palestine

A new video on Youtube Cherem is a slideshow created with lead pencil on black watercolour.   “Extremist rabbis fool the Jews by citing ancient texts That seek to prove that genocide is sacred if pronounced “Cherem”. Cherem dictates that … Continue reading

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Art and Anger

We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored. Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with … Continue reading

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Wittgenstein and Performance

Thank you, Mischa Twitchin, for inviting me to contribute to this fascinating publication.

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FACES AND VASES

Recent developments: drawing in lead pencil over indigo/black paint. Several drawings done with the eyes closed. Erasure on vases done with the eyes closed. The vases are inspired by a line from one of my own poems: the broken vase … Continue reading

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AS IF IT WERE A BOW – Poems and paintings from Thailand

AS IF IT WERE A BOW is a Heyzine flipbook. Read it for free. This is the link – https://heyzine.com/flip-book/86a5281b7f.html These poems and paintings were all done on my wonderful trip to Thailand this year – hosted by Bhorani Nissaisorakarn. … Continue reading

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SAMSON – Suicide Terrorist

SAMSON – committed suicide in Gaza by bringing the Philistine temple of Dagon down on top of himself, killing everyone in the Temple.  See the Old Testament – Judges 13-16. Click here for  Sampson – suicide terrorist The link takes … Continue reading

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DURGA

A sculpture of eight-armed ‘Durga Mahishasuramadini’, holding weapons, slaying the demon Mahisasura, emerging out of buffalo. The sculpture dates back to 10th-11th Century CE from the hills of Almora, Uttarakhand & was repatriated from USA in 2018. This is a … Continue reading

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Making Art from Money

I think it’s easy this way round. Click for my latest slide-show My first eyes shut drawing, Thailand – April 2023

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Aphrodite and Ares

Click for my new slide show APHRODITE AND ARES Since starting to draw with my eyes closed in March 2023 I have been investigating the myth of Aphrodite, Ares and Hephaestos. See Vulcan’s Net and LIW.  In the Iliad, as … Continue reading

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Love, Industry and War

Love, Industry and War A silent slideshow, drawn with the eyes closed. Part of the LIW Project: a revisiting of a myth: Venus, Vulcan her husband and Mars, her lover. Vulcan trapped them in flagrente – in a golden net.

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