At the local swimming pool as I arrive in the car and pull up to let the girls out two boys knock on the door. They follow the car and when I get out expressionless they ask for fifty pence to go swimming. The Roma have been moving to this area for a few years …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
eyepatches and the devil
I took my daughter to school this morning and the class were cutting out a pirate hat. The teacher had used a shape that included an eye patch (the image shows a similar but more complex model). As the children were cutting, colouring and attaching the strip around the back to hold it onto their …
beech leaf noyau
Two carrier bags of young beech leaves steeping in three liters of gin.
baking
Four lemon drizzle cakes for the allotment annual plant sale, well two for home and two for the sale.
telegraph?
Along the edge of the rail line run these posts that look like they once carried wires. I’m sure I can recall them with multiple strands. Were they telegraph wires?
first swift
I saw the first swift of the year above Bole Hill Park.
hypocrisy
There I am writing about collaborating with the litterer. On the way back from school my daughter eats a tangerine. You’ve not dropped the peel? I ask. No I hear, it is in her pocket.
occupation as art
Below is part of a reply I made to a friend who is concerned with collaboration in socially engaged arts practice. The idea of “(a)rt becoming at least in the west more democratic” (perhaps) is an expression of it not being even possibly democratic.
god and nature and the solution
Some time ago in a sitting room in France with some British friends I was looking at the photos, prints and paintings hanging on the walls. I had began a conversation with them about the idea that the natural world, the landscape, nature shared important attributes with God, perhaps the Old Testament God who had …
the litterer and i
I was out walking on Tuesday, well, I stopped the car and clambered into a small wasteland, once the site of pigeon lofts.