It has taken its time, but I do believe that there is a transformation is afoot - I am slowly but surely turning into my mother… The proof is in the pickling (and the gardening).

The line up of tomato kasundi and bottled fruit that I made this week from the organic dumpster cornucopia of Palo [...]

I’m currently working on a piece that involves gall stones and while doing some research I drifted off topic in true peripatetic googler form and arrived at this beauty - the tobacco smoke enema. Apparently, a tobacco smoke enema can be used to stimulate respiration. It was originally employed in this manner by native americans [...]

Now moving on from hard to soft copy, which tends to be in even more of a mess by the time I get around to cleaning - usually when my hard drive runs out of space. In the digital corners I found a random selection of photos taken on my phone. This one I thought [...]

Scribbling notes, thoughts, rambles on random scraps of paper is a habit that dies hard despite the many notebooks that I have bought over the years to try and bribe myself into a more regular pattern of expression. I always put off sorting through these scraps until the end of the yearly filing extravaganza - [...]

Its summer in the northern hemisphere, which as of the current location seems to mean that the break neck speed of the nine previous months is suddenly interrupted by the urgency of global travel, road trips, residencies and a general being ‘elsewhere’. Grounded as I am by my broken heel, I have had no other [...]

Well I seem to be extremely accident prone this year. In January a (minor) head injury and now I have broken my heel bone. However, there are always things to be learned in the process. Indeed it could be argued that my interest in learning from the novelty of each new catastrophe prevents me from [...]

I was in the ubiquitous Walgreens yesterday on an unsuccessful hunt for tampons without applicators - apparently American women don’t like to touch themselves - and I came across this glorious branding phenomenon. Unfortunately, I only had my (non -i)phone with me so the image quality is not great but you get the general idea…

I [...]

Socialism bring it on! Equal access and equal opportunity in Extremadura, Spain.
The region’s socialist government has launched a €14,000 (£12,600) campaign aimed at teaching young people how best to set about “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure” – or to put it less delicately: masturbation.
I can’t say I remember my sex ed classes being [...]

Peak tourist season. Airlines are straining at the seams. The cheapest flight Barcelona-Lyon is via Casablanca. Where the hell is Casablanca?… The ticket bought from the airline website indicates 50 minutes in between flights. Plenty of time for connection transfer. I arrive at Barcelona airport to be told that my baggage cannot be checked through [...]

Reviewing my last posts, I realise that guilt features rather heavily. Now I’m not sure whether the fact that I am making work about environmental anxiety means that I have been performatively amplifying these neurotic environmental meditations, or whether I am, in fact, totally neurotic and that doing this project is merely bringing it all [...]