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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Grandfather Henry, 1826 – 1905, was a banker but with a keen interest in the visual arts. In the 1860/70s he submitted sketches to Punch and other journals which were redrawn and published as cartoons. He left two volumes of these original pen and pencil drawings which I have put together in two volumes – First Thoughts and First Thoughts – volume 2.These are in the blurb catalogue :http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2238872 and :http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2114721.
Sketches for bodyparts http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2163098 – is the first attempt to put some of the “stalled” work on the body into sequenced book format.
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
I was making so little progress with bodyparts – just one visit to the Print Studio – that I decided to remove much of this work from the site. Things seemed to have stalled, but the intent is to find a way forward. Sketches for bodyparts at http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/2163098 – is the first attempt to put some of this “stalled” work into sequenced book format.
Then in March my mother was hospitalised and passed away. The last six months have been exceptional. Few new pictures but hundreds reviewed , sorted , put into book sequences and printed through Blurb. One dedicated to my mother, one to my father, much delayed since he died in 1999, and one to my uncle Bay who was lost in WWII. These are essentially private, family volumes but there are aspects that may be of public interest that I hope to deal with in the near future. Because of the flexibility in the Blurb process that allows endless tweaking, there is a feeling that these books remain unfinished. Maybe that’s useful when the subject is the life of a parent.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
16000 deaths,19 years in jail – fury greets sentence for Pol Pot’s executioner
This was the headline in today’s Independent – 27 July.
The court ruled that the former maths teacher who had overseen the Tuol Sleng interrrogation centre should be sentenced to 35 years in jail, reduced to 18 years 10 months after consideration of time already served.
Alongside the report of the trial verdict is a piece by Nic Dunlop who tracked down comrade Duch in 1999.It is a balanced article. He comments that the trial became an examination of how human beings behave in times of great extremity, and he asks the question;What would we have done in his shoes?….
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
I’ve decided to keep work in progress to myself.I’ll remove it bit by bit.The blog hasn’t generated any dialogue with one notable exception, and the work itself has far to go.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Putting a gallery together has its own logic. It’s what I call Blakemore sequencing.( I hope John won’t mind this cryptic reference to his very formative portfolio workshop in Glasgow.) The 3×3 or 3×4 + format often requires the reworking of an image, or reloading of the whole set to get the right balance.
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