Category Archives: art

Charybdis

x Bayesian, the name of that yacht. Elementary, my dear Wat! Scilla and Charybdis frequent the strait at Messina. Water-spouts round Sicily are nothing new, it seems to me. Another old dilemma has still to be resolved in the wake … Continue reading

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More on Victor Hugo

I am fascinated by the art of Victor Hugo, recently seen at the RA. Here is a link to my essay on his work and that of Alexander Cozens. Modern Art is Over: Embrace Deep Art There is also an … Continue reading

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Digital Masks

Very pleased to see this work by The Theatre of Mistakes on the front cover of Gazeta Grupy 404 – an arts magazine from Poznan in Poland. Design by Maciej Koziowski. It features a brilliant article on the relationship of … Continue reading

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Earth Day 2025 – Kristian Evans and Nathan Roach

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkBj7X1dfQ A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach This is one of the best poem/films I have come across. It often uses a constant moving image (reeds moving, waves breaking etc) which I have always found the ideal backdrop … Continue reading

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Gaza

See also WAR

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From Book 7 of The Runiad

x At a time when St. Francis was staying in the town of Gubbio, There appeared in that region a wolf so maddened by lack of a meal It took to devouring humans as well as beasts in the wild. … Continue reading

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Memories of an Island

Memories of a idyllic island on the Green Coast of Brazil. X ….Things that prefer to be hidden from us, without the effrontery Of the small seven-coloured birds that flit through the quiet, Perch for a sec on a branch … Continue reading

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Rio, back in 2012

Here is a Youtube slideshow It’s a slideshow of paintings I made in Rio in 2012, when I escaped the London winter to spend summer in Brazil. Below are some poems I wrote at the time: x TRISTEZA x That … Continue reading

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Capoeira

x x x x x Capoeira drawings from 2012.

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The Island off the Green Coast

x x x x And to this post I am now adding a section from Book 23 of my poem The Runiad: x Now here seems far away from the pressing urgency Experienced in the West. Sure it’s an illusion, … Continue reading

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