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the majestic silence

You know Phaedrus, that's the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly analogous to painting. The painter's work stands before us as though the paintings were alive, but if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words; they seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a wish to know more, they go on telling you the same thing over and over again forever.

The text read was nothing but its words, in which signs and meaning overlapped with bewildering precision. Interpretation, exegesis, gloss, commentary, association,, refutation, symbolic and allegorical senses, all rose not from the text itself, but from the reader. The text, like a painted picture, said only 'the moon of Atheus,' it was the reader who furnished it with a full ivory face, a deep dark sky, a landscape of ancient ruins along which Socrates once walked.

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

spectacle

My new tent. It has a hook to hang my glasses on when I go to sleep.
And - at last - a proper porch.

recharge your design batteries

Homeward Bound appears in Recharge Your Design Batteries: Creative Challenges to Stretch Your Imagination, by John O'Reilly & Tony Linkson and published by How Books, ISBN 978-1-60061-335-7.

If you click on the images they should be large enough for you to read the article if you want to.

an indistinct or billowing mass

Leonardo da Vinci said that clouds were like 'bodies without surface.' And in Folding Chair, Regina Spektor wisely points out, 'the sea is just a wetter version of the skies.' So a couple of weeks ago I returned from what has become an annual camping trip to the Isles of Scilly. Islands allow you to see so much wider and further and higher than you otherwise would. There's a clarity of vision that you don't get on the mainland, meaning you see the weather coming towards you, far in advance. It's like looking at your immediate future laid out before you. I rarely pay attention to keeping one step ahead of the weather when I'm in a city or working.

Interestingly, clouds exist, whilst not being visible… read an article on subvisible clouds.

And this site is brilliant for anyone who's in the least bit interested in the skies above them:
The Cloud Appreciation Society.

kinda candles

£60 for the 60 year old!

tanks & tablecloths

After a long year, it's finally summer. Most of my work ends for a few weeks now and I'm trying to think about ME for a while and be a practising creative again!

So I'm delighted to announce that Tanks & Tablecloths returns rejuvenated after a long pause! Discussions between myself and Elizabeth Haven are currently underway as to how we move forward, but we are excited at the possibilities and have set up another blog to begin documenting our dialogue.

Check:
tanksandtableclothsvisualarchive.blogspot.com

Hopefully see you here a bit more often in the future…