Kelpies – the road less taken
The Kelpies in Falkirk have become very famous, but this is a view that you rarely see. It pays to go off the beaten track, away from the crowds. You might be surprised by what you find.
2021
We're doing repair and restoration to our imaginations. Because none of our communities have ever been perfect, right? We don't actually want to go back to anywhere. We want to reimagine and then say, 'What does it mean, what must we restore and make whole for us to actually get there?
Elandria Williams
Armageddon, minus the odd letter
2021 I took this image in Berlin and it always makes me smile. Did the graffiti artist lose the plot, or only a few letters? In any case, I hope this is still there on that painted brick wall in a rather staid district of Berlin.
Shuggie Bain will break your heart – and put the pieces back together again
Last night I went to Malmö City Library, to my first indoor cultural event since December 2019. And fittingly, wonderfully, it was Douglas Stuart, talking about Shuggie Bain. As I have written elsewhere, this book is astonishing, a tour de force of love and despair. Acclaimed by critics, loved by readers, translated into a slew […]
One of those days …
… when you wish you had never got out of bed.
Decolonise your imagination
As relevant as ever
The times are urgent. Slow down.
Bayo Akomolafe
We can do it
It is May 2021 and the Covid 19 pandemic is ongoing. My dear friend Talita is a doctor in Brazil, working in what she describes as a genocide. This watercolour is my tribute to her and all the other health workers all over the world who are doing more than is humanly possible, every single […]
Work in progress
April 2021. AS the pandemic drags on, my studio has become even more important. Here are some works in progress.
The deeper the sorrow the greater the joy
William Blake
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