Archive for July, 2010

in the digital corners the animals get dirty

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

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 [...]

insane in the membrane

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

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 – [...]

mia culpa

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Caught out once again. Between recitations of address, phone number, social security number, member ID number, claim number, date of birth, date of service, date of last period, middle name, mother’s maiden name, family cat name, four digit password, eight digit password – alphanumeric characters only, I have sinned. I yelled at the customer service [...]

fragments from the archive

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

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 [...]

meditation on toast

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Ever since I started working with toasters I have been thinking a lot about toast. Following on from my washing machine obsession I had been keen to continue exploring the material and metaphorical opportunities represented in the transformative functions of everyday devices. The opportunity subsequently presented to me in the form of a toasting oven [...]