Issue 28

Half out of the corner of my mind I heard emerge from the noise matrix of a video installation the phrase ’So many people living without me’. Was it a girl’s voice? I paid little attention and continued my way through the art gallery – being oddly impressed by the soft pendulous glooping of the…

..a priority for humankind since the year dot. Wikipedia tells us that: ‘The first mirrors used by people were most likely pools of dark, still water, or water collected in a primitive vessel of some sort. The earliest manufactured mirrors were pieces of polished stone such as obsidian, a naturally occurring volcanic glass. Examples of…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..satisfy his thirst for things Hampson and had acquired (from Wales I think) some volumes of Frank Hampson’s work for Eagle in the ’50s. Frank Hampson inspired me too. As a youngster I could scarcely wait for the weekly copy of Eagle to arrive so I could devour the latest…

..global political domination. Or to hide their affairs with attractive members of either sex, dreadful schemes with the tobacco industry or some financial skulduggery. These ‘terminated with extreme prejudice’ people may not have stood before any tribunal to have their crimes weighed in the balance of Justice, but extinguished they are with the single bullet…

..a glass of water. But after a few kilometres of uphill a rest was definitely called for so we glided in with all the grace of our combined one hundred and thirty-two years could muster. Which was limited. So there we sat outside on the sunny veranda, two OMILs (Old Men In Lycra), Doug with…

.. into a rubbish skip or were used as weed suppressants somewhere on our little acre where I still occasionally turn up multi-coloured fragments. The silly thing was that whilst a number of paintings deserved their fate by being, in anybody’s opinion, a waste of paint and canvas, there were a number of paintings that…