Tuesday, 24 January 2012

His hope floats me home



Some things shake you, tip you up by the toes and arrest you in your tracks. New additions to your world can do that, be it in miniature form or long limbed tallness. I had two days to rest and think, gaze at that sea and watch the earth's rotation, sunrise to sunset. Virus ridden, head woozy, legs frozen still, inactive. Yet the sound of the waves soothed and lulled as the mind sailed in and out of glorious sleep rich dreams, sun shine through sea clouds and shut tight eyelids, mildly aware of the passing days. Those wings are beginning to grow back, gliding me to a carved out cave made of his hope.

Friday, 20 January 2012

Monday, 16 January 2012

Come MAKE Books





It's that time of the year once more. Come cosy down for 8 winter to spring evenings at hot bed press. Spend 3 delicious hours each wednesday caressing, folding, stitching and pressing, drawing, thinking, stringing words, sipping hot tea, nibbling fine confectionery. Give yourself the gift of time to make books books books and let your mind meander the corridors of book art possibility. You will have a most lovely time, I guarantee it.


'I loved our Wednesday evenings and learned so much, so quickly. Not just from Lucy, our amazing teacher, but from the way, everyone shared ideas, experiences and quality biscuits for eight, continuous and memorable weeks.'

(High praise indeed).



New Happy Year



It's a little past January 1st, yet I always like to hold out on the new years wishes until I've fully survived 'Blue Monday' (statistically the darkest day of every year). So, as the sun reassuringly sets on the 3rd monday of January, may I say a NeW HaPpy YeAR to you.

For me the year of the Dragon brings/ standing in LoVe/ Godmother status (finally)/ a Book fair tour/ plenty more tap/ nights of long dark secret warmth/ letterpress printed editions/ lungfuls of sea air/slow H Van meandering/ new tiny lives/ stimulating collaborations/ NY ideas/ Brandy nightcaps/ poetic ambitions/ oh and a mane of red hair.

2012. The year of possibility.


Sunday, 15 January 2012

sweet beautiful england




a tired westhighland after a long beach comb a long way from manchester.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

the end of the affair


So long old New York, you showed me the way.






learning the art of looking





Screening of Paul Auster's 'Smoke' at BAM last month, Brooklyn, nyc.

Friday, 13 January 2012

New York I love you but you're bringing me down




But you're still the pool that I'd happily drown.

Perfect.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

You Reap What You Sow






After weeks of sorting the tinniest to the most obscure orphaned letterpress type at the NY Center for Book Arts, I selected the font for my New York Intervention message, typeset, printed and distributed 90 cards (one for each day of my stay) around the beautiful city . They were the imprint I left behind, a gesture to the lessons learnt, and a little shock to those that don't expect to receive without giving.

'All you can take with you is that which you've given away.' F.Capra