Image above, pen and drawing ink on monoprint on paper. October 2021. Top image, ink on perspex.
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Journal
Robert and Alfie
My love of Robert Wyatt and Alfie Benge continues unabated. I do not abate! And I will not! New mugs available soon on the Raw Art site – based on drawings… please buy their book Side by Side if you are a fan. It shows how closely they work together, are inspired by each other,…
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The 2021 drawings
Automatic Lunatik drawings made on pages which do not correspond to the date. July 2021 onwards. Reflecting the mood. Emoji, Madge Gill, Spiritualism, disaster, highs, lows, Haring, Basquiat, soul music, pen and ink. better drawn with a Mitsubishi Uniball Micro Deluxe 0.5 – hard to find in this country now. Damn it!
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Still life
I made a still life withe the things I have been collecting for the past few months. Look, I don’t question why, it’s what gets you through, right? A coffee pod, a cracked egg shell, a crab claw. Something will be made with these items in the next few months.
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Points of view
Pencil and charcoal points around the home. Tiny tips, fallen out of pencils. One unused charcoal. Do they not have homes to go to?
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Spring has sprung
It’s getting warmer and the days are becoming longer.
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Testing…
Now the school are back they are giving the children lateral flow test to do at home twice a week. I realised the plastic skull was on the table (for homework) already and nestling by the test paraphernalia.
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Zoom tumb tumb
Marinetti may have welcomed the virtual meeting room in his manifestoes, such a fan of Futurismo and automation that he was. He may have relished in the auto-virtual lockdown world we are currently in. But to many, Zoom meetings are the future we do not wish for.
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I am collecting eggshells
The eggshells pile up in corners of the kitchen and the living room (almost wrote the Living Tomb there like some massive goth). They are cracked of course, open and already eaten up. Contents devoured by means of frying (the best) or some sort of omelette.
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Happy new tier
The featured image is the skeleton of a tree, December 2020. Similar to an Egon Scheile landscape, perhaps. Schiele’s “lifestyle choices” were not particularly good, but paintings of his surrounds are exceptional.
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