Category: Pandora’s Box

Since I was nudged into discovering Georges Perec in the first module, I have been so impressed by his work and his universal relevance, and many aspects of my work can relate to his. In an article by Paul Grimstad in The New Yorker ( Grimstad, P. 2019. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec. The… Continue reading Two Articles on Perec

Should have been “Sleeping Man”, but this is an apposite typo! I watched the film, “Un homme qui dort” , “A Man Asleep”, on Youtube before Christmas, but I didn’t get it and I think I gave up halfway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNurvWW4_0 I started reading thee two works “Things: a story of the Sixties” and “A Man… Continue reading Trains, Things and a Seeping man

I’m trying to read more of Perec’s work; I only had time to skim it and other works in the first module. On the back cover is a quote from a review by Andrew Motion in The Observer. “Things: A story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy… Continue reading Things: a story of the Sixties

We are in the pause between the first and second modules of the MA at present. In the first module I was looking for, and found, a portfolio group of themes under the umbrella of TIME. Theme One was the observation and examination of the infra-ordinary, the endotic – observing everyday objects and daily and… Continue reading Musing and Reflection

So far my work has been mainly to do with digital photography, digital editing, compositing and writing. I’d like to extend it into hybrid forms of collaging. This is a good time to try such work, in between modules, when we have no official course work to do. One of the methods I’m going to… Continue reading Jelly on the plate