Rosie Dahlstrom: Collages from 'Delphyne' series, digital collages, 2018 On Monday 29th October 2018 I, finally, got my head around Photoshop. It was a momentous day. Every day since then, I have been on a computer messing about with Photoshop. Mastering the tech skills has been on my to-do list since art school first time… Continue reading On Photoshop
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On Alternative Practices
"As I taught [at California College of the Arts], many students were coming to the end of their studies and were moving toward things that weren't art. But they weren't saying 'fuck the art world'. It was the content of their work that led them into other field, to, say, becoming a doctor, as one… Continue reading On Alternative Practices
On the Future of Art
'The artist is the antenna of the race.' Ezra Pound This week I finally, at last, started my MA Fine Art. I've been trying, over the course of this crazy week, to pull together strands of conversation, sights, places, experiences to find the common themes that will help me make sense of one of the… Continue reading On the Future of Art
On Changing, Dreaming and Making
'Mrs Pontellier was not a woman given to confidences, a characteristic hitherto contrary to her nature. Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively that dual life- the outward existence that conforms, the inward life which questions.' Kate Chopin, The… Continue reading On Changing, Dreaming and Making