A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. ... Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T S Spivet.
Category Archives: Allotmenteering
Secret Studio
This was my secret studio during the period of The Great Transition, where I began to discover the eco collograph. It’s the shed at our allotment. It has a veranda which we closed in with trellising, including the trellis door … Continue reading
Eco Collographs: Shaking the Tree
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Logan Pearsall Smith The image above is another of my experiments with eco collographs on 300gsm watercolour paper. Look like … Continue reading
Oak Flowers on Silk – an Epitaph
There may not be another Spring in this park, so here is a bouquet in tribute, of flowers of oak, on silk. Continue reading
Dramatic Narratives: More Eco Print Experiments
Nature in conversation. It is happening all around us. I think the pre-industrialised world could hear it. Indeed, we were part of Nature’s conversation. We knew it. Because we knew that we also were Nature. Then along came The Enlightenment … Continue reading
Taking a Red Cabbage (and an Apple) for a (Low Calorie) Walk
With apologies to Paul Klee for misquoting his famous definition of drawing (that it is … taking a line for a walk). This is a red line that’s been taken for a walk. Well, … more like a spin. A … Continue reading
Adventuring
Yes, I think you can call it that – adventuring – what I’ve been doing since my last blog of … 31 July. Really? I’ve been gone that long? Oh, well, when the road calls … Here’s a handful of photos to illustrate some of what I’ve been up to, each of which I will expand upon in due course. Continue reading
Squares Activated and the Importance of Boundaries
I took the photo on the left a few days ago. Had I taken it the day before, you’d not have been able to see the squares of veggies (the wooden frames) for the height of the grass surrounding them. We … Continue reading
One Square at a Time
There is a lot of weather going round at the moment, physically and metaphysically. Since I’m talking about squares, forgive the play on words, though the round in my first sentence ought really to be around. Poetic licence. There is a deal of … Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Creativity, Ecology, Photography, Quilting, Research, Science, Vegetarianism
Tagged Agricultural companies, Allotment, Allotmenteering, creativity, Deformed Wing Virus, European Honeybee Decline, Genetically Modified Food, Growing Food, Jude Hill, Library of Halexandria, Nine, Nine-square, Numerology, Organic Food, Oxygen, quilting, Raised Beds, Sacred Numbers, Science Magazine, Spirit Cloth, Tree felling
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Visual Journal 3: Superhero
Oh, yes, this daily (for daily, read, striving for daily) visual journalling thing is proving to be a good idea. (I can hear a trillion-scrillion-to-the-power-of-infinity-and-more artists around the known and unknown universes, groaning, shaking their heads in disbelief and asking in unison: … Continue reading
Visual Journal 2 – Taking a Line for a (Poetic) Walk
Well, from the start I haven’t been able to keep up a daily visual journal. To be honest, I didn’t believe I would be able to achieve that. Something with a thousand different names, from Life to … seeks to … Continue reading
Posted in Allotmenteering, Art, Art Journal, Creativity, Inspiration, Walking
Tagged Allotmenteering, Animating a Space, collage, Community, Drawing, Paul Klee, Pictogram, visual journal
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 