Fallen Empires 04/16/2012
Fallen Empires 2012, oil on found post card
Hello, here I am. Me and the kitty cat are well and tripping along nicely together. Its been a busy time, but lots of fun and learning, on the way to Tainted Love Yee-Ha. So while all of thats happening I am carrying on with my Limerent post cards. The object of this post card has just joined twitter and I find myself responding to every tweet. Oh dear. The Novelty will wear off right?..... Add Comment Never Let me Go 03/17/2012
Postcards From Me To You. 03/14/2012
 water colour on found post card 2012  For the Robert & Jesse (Tainted Love) work I have been using old post cards, most unwanted rather than used, accept for the last batch I found. A batch that contained post cards from as far back as the 1950's and had been sent from A-B. I put these aside, and then some more turned up in the next batch I found, I put them aside, and so it continues. Its turning into a a little collection. The post card is important at the moment, it feels fan cherished or made, can be passed around, pinned in different locations or stored under your bed in a tin. They are bought, picked up for free, used as mementoes or posted to the object of ones desire (wouldnt catch me doing that, noooooo) ahem. Anyway, other than that and with Tainted Love getting closer after a good few months in the making, I'm thinking about my own obsessions and fan behaviour more and more and adding to Fan Book paintings, these exist mainly on Face Book at the moment but a few will be getting an outing as part of Fan Fiction Empire at The Residence Gallery soon. Other Stuff Jane Eyre is out on DVD, oh blimey, this is good and improves with watching, again and again, and again... Its nice to see a darker working of this sort of period drama rather than the (although I love it) sightly soft focus feel of the Pride & Prejudice re make. Phwoar! Reichenbach Falls 02/28/2012
 My Boy Builds Coffins, 2012. Oil on found postcard  Reichenbach falls, 2012, oil on found postcard A little bit of fan activity, running along side the Robert & Jesse story. The Robert & Jesse work is coming to an end now, I shall miss that sad tragic story. I am off to find pictures of Danny Kaye, Robert Redford & Doris Day - the first celebrities I remember having feelings of a Fan about.... Paintings from the FanBook. Day out for the side show 02/24/2012
 The Bench, 2012. Oil on found postcard.  Day out with the sideshow, 2012. Collage on found postcard.  Lovers Castle, 2012. Oil on found postcard. Its funny sometimes when you have an idea or an interest, or you are reading about a certain subject (at the moment its love stories, of an obsessive kind).....suddenly its everywhere. Accept of course it isnt, I think I'm just more tuned in and notice things when I normally wouldnt. Any who, I like to have a book on the go, one thats not related to anything else I am working on, an escape. Today I was reading Scarlet Thomas's PopCo and a conversation between two female adults. 'well they sort of are nobodies, we all are really..' 'Not all of us' She kicks around some more with her scuffed trainers. 'Pop stars, film stars. If the lead singer from say...' she thinks for a moment and then names the most successful rock band in the whole country. 'if he walked in now you wouldnt treat him like nobody, You couldnt'. I would actually be more interested in the lead guitarist but I dont want to confuse the issue. In fact, its odd that she has mentioned this band as I often have odd dreams about the guitarist, not wanting to fuck him or anything, more wanting to be him. I even want his hair style. But I wont say any of this... 'So?' In the meantime I have been indulging in my Sherlock fan behaviour....a bit.  Of course I have a picture of me under the canopy, and standing on the 221b door step. Good times. What Must Be Done 02/09/2012
 Towards the end of The Film Robert is shown to re-enact the fatal day, the day he shot Jessie. There is a sense of madness about the scene. Robert seems to be losing control because he is reliving the shooting, regretting it or because the fame and respect he expected to come his way, never really did. Its a perfectly twisted almost - end to this particular story of obsession.  A few of the paintings from the Robert & Jessie can be found here. Along with this scene there is another one that I really like in particular - Robert wanders around Jessie's bedroom, touching, smelling and feeling what it might be like to be Jessie. So, I'm getting back to this sort of blogging again, jolly nice so far. I dont think I will be posting to a rigid schedule though. In the mean time I have had snow, a yo-yoing diabetic cat, a wonderful evening with (in the flesh-sort of) Snow Patrol - this is a fab live version of fallen empires , Curious Pursuits at The Portico and more Sherlock on the telly than is believed healthy. Counting The Stars 11/09/2011
New post is on its way, when the Reside Residency finishes. In the mean time here is Mark kermode talking about The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford. '..about the idea of approaching death but also about, I think importantly, about the idea, that the character who is going to kill Jesse James, is in a very modern celebrity concsious kind of way, obsessed by him.' Mark Kermode | AuthorWebsite Archives |
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