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Friday, 24 December 2010

Happy Holidays




Best wishes to all over the festive season.

See you in the New Year, if not through a little posting in the in-between time.

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Environmental Art

Being fortunate to only pick up a slight delay on our flight back from the Netherlands, Amsterdam Schipol Airport to London City, yesterday. I was delighted to watch and be captivated by the skill and grace and resulting snow and ice drawings that the runway clearing team were creating for a bemused audience of weary travelers.

An act of necessity. Clearing the several inches of snow and compacted ice for passenger safety. However there seemed a delight in all of those watching not simply of the reassurance that they will be getting home now. But of a joy of witnessing proficiency in a skill, a servicing of a collective need with a generosity of showmanship; like a main stage Christmas ballet.

The ploughs, sweepers, heavy plant machinery danced across the taxi ways and circled amongst flashing lights in tighter and tighter rotations, circles-of-eight until mounds, causeways and marks in the subtle shades of greying whites revealed an environmental sculpture on the stage.

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Can You See The Dogs?






A couple of images from the '@home' show. It has been a successful and fun venture midst decorating and festive madness, and I will definitely do it again and maybe with other artists/makers. Watch this space...

I hung work all around the three rooms of the flat and even the bathroom did not escape a selected mono-chromatic hang!

The dogs were on best behaviour and exhausted by all the attention they got.