Cours des Arts, Pop Up Gallery, Foix. August 2022 This series of works is an attempt to migrate experiences of landscape into an experience of painting, for both artist and viewer. As I work, I start with a memory or the memory of an experience. As paint and memory accumulate on the canvas, the process…
Category: art/bouldering research
sport or art
In 2015 I finished a Phd THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTING THE ‘BOULDERING’ EXPERIENCE AS IT EXCEEDS CONVENTIONAL FORMS OF REPRESENTATION in which I hope I argued relatively successfully that bouldering was in fact an art form. Since that time things have inevitably changed. Currently there are people practising bouldering as an art form consciously and…
squint
I look hard into the wind driven snow, a grey white depthless landscape. On the same day I look inside my Dad’s old glove, I couldn’t see much in there either.
The recalcitrant
With some spare time on my hands, well a little bit of time, a new baby tends to suck most of the time away. I decided to make an attempt to think about my climbing, with as much of an objective perspective as possible. I have two very similar tendencies or preferences if you wish….
down by the river
Down by the river. A large mouse crawls out of the undergrowth oblivious to my presence as I sit motionless. Over the summer spiders have colonised the cracks and holes in the rock, brambles and ferns hang over the lip of the boulder. Out of the half dozen or so moves that I tried I couldn’t…
Being and Time
With temperatures in the high 30’s, the chickens didn’t seem very interested in a reading of Heidegger. I waited in vain for five mins before going of to look for them in the trees and long grass. I guess they prefer Satre.
Satre et poule
Today I decided I would introduce our chickens to some philosophy. I wasn’t really sure where to start, after all it’s a broad subject. Context is everything, so in the end I thought I would start with Satre, after all they are French chickens. I’ve been thinking a little bit about context and wondering…
tomatoes and pepper
Beginning of an effort to try and make/document some small act of creativity every day, whilst acknowledging the changing aspects and contexts of creative process.
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