This is the 6th post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “2014 mapmaking (part 6)”
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Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 5
This is the 5th post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 5”
Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 4
This is the 4th post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 4”
Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 3
This is the third post in a series that I still call psychogeographical maps (or cognitive mapping). Quoting certain sections and using a selection of photographs to widen the project, which at its core still has the intention to be a Cognitive Mapping of Now – aiming to be useful for locating the current socio-politicalContinue reading “Recent Mapmaking (2014 so far) part 3”
Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)
I’ve begun including a few photographs within my (what I still reluctantly call -as I’ve not found a better word for them yet) psychogeographical maps. 13th May 2012 “Street Art-clad entrance into Victorian storm tunnels, before they descend under central Leeds. Perhaps the element of urban decay is what prompts us to talk about theContinue reading “Recent mapmaking. (2014 so far, through maps)”
Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules
The Sad but necessary demolition of some older pieces of work. Although I wouldn’t really call these pieces of work sculpture – they were more accompaniments to my drawings, mounds rising up to slightly obscure the pieces I was showcasing/like a weight on a stressed chest that won’t go away (guilt of being part of/weddedContinue reading “Pre-2008-Crash Time-Capsules”
Thurlstone Moor, May 2014 (John Ledger, Michael Hill – part of West Riding of Yorkshire: A Psychogeographical Account)
eaufitul emptiness: our (mild) equivalent to the US deserts, empty, barren, ‘lifeless, open space, where objects take on a monolithic presence. A place of long straight roads that exhaust a mind put into turmoil by the world down below. Some of these monolithic objects take on a lunar-like feel. The desert and the moon haveContinue reading “Thurlstone Moor, May 2014 (John Ledger, Michael Hill – part of West Riding of Yorkshire: A Psychogeographical Account)”
Songs that evoke a world once imaginable; animating ghosts from the past
Even though I intend this blog to be about my own responses and reflections on music that has informed my understanding of life during the past 20 years, I have been motivated to write it in the first place due to being captivated by the thoughts of many cultural theorists ; in particular, Mark FisherContinue reading “Songs that evoke a world once imaginable; animating ghosts from the past”
End of year haunting
Accompanying sound….Stolen Dog – BurialSteel Your Girl – Neon Neon Street Halo – BurialRuby Tuesday – Franco BattiatioWith Every Heartbeat (at Ghosts of My Life tempo) – Robyn with Kleerup Nae Hair On’t – The Bluetones Seconds – The Human League Shadowplay (live in Manchester) – Joy Division C.R.E.A.M – The Wu-Tang Clan Dislocation –Continue reading “End of year haunting”
My work for An Unofficial Alumni (a Cognitive Mapping of Now)
Image courtesey of Rob Nunns Within this exhibition is basically my full year’s expenditure of energy that didn’t otherwise go into earning a wage, maintaining social bonds, our down the plug hole mixed with alcohol. So obviously it’s something I deem worth sharing, alongside the blogpost cover the entire An Unofficial Alumni exhibition. The crucialContinue reading “My work for An Unofficial Alumni (a Cognitive Mapping of Now)”