Category Archives: Writing

The idea of the survival of the best/the most competent has certainly been normalised in contemporary society – as opposed to the pre-Thatcher era when there was more (but not much more) emphasis on equality rather than the equality of opportunity which compresses our outlook now, which began to take hold under Thatcher here inContinue reading “On Competitiveness”

An image that will always stick with me is one which was on a video in an exhibition commemorating the holocaust, at the Imperial War Museum, London. In a well-meant diversion from the Jewish Holocaust, the video narrator spoke of all those other holocausts which have happened since then in the late 20th century, mainlyContinue reading “21st Century Schizoid Man”

I had to trawl through all the old household photo collection to find what I wanted; you know, photos from a time when they actually meant something, before images of everybody from every place at every time where splattered upon the social networking sites; you know, the times when it took a couple of weeksContinue reading

So, yet again I find myself in a personal battle to abstain from the technological dictation of communication. Caught in a dilemma, knowing full-well that abstaining from the social networking sites will sever many social contacts but also never ever forgetting the miserable state of mind I sink into whilst scrolling up and down myContinue reading “The Social Media Fat-Face application – a real cultural low point”

One of the reasons why there is more writing on this blog than artwork at present is ecause the place where I make my work is so cramped with old works that I can hardly move. I have provided truthful photographic evidence of this, for anyone bored enough to be interested in such A NONContinue reading

Essential moments… My easiest, most content, moments arrive when I look at my arms and legs and see myself as just a mere animal, a highly evolved ape, as opposed to a needing-to-be-seen-as good-looking, productive, clever and popular person. Nevertheless it is difficult to retain these thoughts whilst in the company of other humans; in factContinue reading “Trying To Swim Upstream”

 What is becoming of us as we spend more of our lives in the virtual world? The conversations which we may have shared between a few of us, the photographs which we may have shown to a few of us, are now shown to numbers that rise well over an hundred. Hundreds of people areContinue reading “On a virtual existence”

On one of my days off from work I was going to take my camera out with me, but I lost the heart. It felt as if I would just be adding to the mess which consumer capitalism has created. “Well” I thought “maybe I can just keep them for my own use and notContinue reading “Uses of Technological advances in a Commercially-driven society”

There is still a her who I miss, when my endevours hit a snag. Even if she isn’t identifiable as anybody who exists, or who has ever existed, there is still a her.

The same old manic approach. As soon as the days get longer and the sun shines brighter, anxiety blossoms inside of me, highlighting everything I ‘need to do now’ to avoid the feeling of failure and the doldrums. I recognise the face in the reflection of the train station windows – the face of meContinue reading “Checking in at springtime again”