Category Archives: art

ART AND ITS DARK SIDE – INTRODUCTION

Art and its Dark Side – The Eight Rivers of Art A series of eight essays dealing with the ‘rivers of art’ – creative concerns which have the abiding power to preoccupy artists and writers, and which have always had … Continue reading

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The Picture Within the Picture

A Talk I think there are serious drawbacks to terms like modernism and post-modernism.  They seem too large to do much good.  They’re generalisations; and they concern time rather than some way of making art.  Modernism is like saying ‘nowism’.  … Continue reading

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How I see this journal

I am advised that the best blogs are focused.   But I want this site to reflect the diversity of my interests – poetry, dance, performance art, essays and music.  Over the years, I have become reconciled to being a … Continue reading

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