by admin | Jun 2, 2017 | Writing
So I got my first “You’ve got a lovely suntan” of June yesterday. The person who asked me realised half way through that she was asking a potentially problematic question and veered off into the world of holidays and sunshine, but the damage was...
by admin | May 19, 2017 | Writing
In July 1991 I arrived at Gdynia, the Polish seaport where the cracks in communism had not long since opened up into crevasses and swallowed a 70 year old ideology. I arrived on a boat from Tilbury because I had thought it would be a really cool way to arrive in...
by admin | Jan 8, 2017 | Writing
So I am sitting next to my semi-conscious mother on the medical assessment ward and I suddenly find Thomas Wyatt’s “they flee from me that sometime did me seek” sloshing about in my head. Until now I had always thought it the self dramatising lament...
by admin | Jan 6, 2017 | Writing
I just had a ‘discussion’ with an american christian on twitter. He ended up asking me if I was a liberal theologian. I have never been asked that before. I’m liberal, I’m educated and particularly interested in history and religion because...
by admin | Nov 9, 2016 | Writing
We put up our first e5Process Exhibition in the Archive Gallery at the Rose Lipman Library, ex-home of my old alma mater Open School East in mid November. An exhibition of experimental photography practice from the E5 Process Darkroom Collective. Archive Gallery,...
by admin | Sep 9, 2016 | Writing
My mother lives in a care home. She sits in a chair with her back to the window alone watching television all day. My brother recently put one of those convex blind spot mirrors so she could see out of the window, like The Lady of Shalott. Her life is arranged on two...