THE LONG BLACK ROAD

OK, so I often talk about taking the less travelled road and also the scenic route in my posts. And for better or worse my life as I have lived it and where I find myself is as a result of this inclination to follow these paths. By most accounts I am a huge failure, [...]

By |2019-05-02T04:50:22+02:00December 24th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on THE LONG BLACK ROAD

CONABOR

A caution, dear reader, a warning from the outset that this post is a return to the characteristics of my earlier writings on this site; scenic route verbal meanderings. However, do not despair though, as I do, as always, eventually get to the point. You see, I agree with Mary Oliver’s observation that “attention without [...]

By |2019-05-02T04:47:08+02:00December 19th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on CONABOR

City of the Seven Islands

 “What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of the monsoon means to the Indian. It is preceded by desolation; it brings with it hopes of spring; it has the fullness of summer and the fulfillment of autumn all in one.” Khushwant Singh:  I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale [...]

By |2019-05-02T04:57:50+02:00January 29th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on City of the Seven Islands

The Usefulness of the Cup

For those of you who don’t know it, Bruce Lee was not just THE master of kung fu. He was also a great thinker. An indication of this is of course how he critically analysed classical or traditional martial art forms such as karate and kung fu and deconstructed them to create the belief-system, Jeet Kune [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:01:34+02:00December 11th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Usefulness of the Cup

TSUNDOKU

Tsundoku: the act of leaving a book unread after buying it; typically piling it up together with other such unread books. This singularly perfect Japanese word wonderfully describes my present condition. This is not to say that I am not reading. No, on the contrary, I am reading (and writing) in vast amounts. But it [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:03:43+02:00June 20th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on TSUNDOKU

swany: Revisited

My final year students are in the process of conceptualizing in order to create a body of work for an exhibition at the end of the year. One of them is dealing with social media and this resulted in me reflecting on my own troubled, ambivalent history with this post-modern form of interaction. I thought [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:07:26+02:00May 31st, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on swany: Revisited
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