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

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

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

MIXTAPES

Sadly Chris Cornell (1964–2017), musician, singer, and songwriter, and member of Soundgarden and Audioslave died on 17 May. It was by his own hand: suicide by hanging.  The Grammy-winning rocker had performed that Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Perhaps indicative of his state of mind, he ended his performance with a cover [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:05:19+02:00May 24th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on MIXTAPES

What I Did This Past Holiday

Remember when you were a kid? Remember when you got back to school after the holidays the teacher would get each of you up in front to tell the class what you did? Remember show & tell? I do, I especially remember in class one (grade one) getting up and telling the class that my [...]

By |2019-05-02T05:11:28+02:00February 2nd, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on What I Did This Past Holiday
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