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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




10/05/2012

photo





Upside down world (archival)

Still sorting my photos... Have deleted 5 gig of photos and that's hardly made a dent in the  archive, which is yielding quite a lot of rubbish, and all sorts of forgotten treasures tucked inbetween.


08/05/2012

upheavals of thought


 'One misses in a primitive way what held one and gave one comfort: even when one fastens on particular details, [...]  they are complex eudaimonistic symbols of comfort and support. This suggests that it is more because the need for comfort and support fades that the sensory memory fades, rather than that the memory simply fades out on its own, causing thereby a diminution in the need for comfort and support [...]

Martha Nussbaum, 'Upheavals of Thought'