http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Alternative platform: Jon Adams Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:29:58 +0100 a-n rss generator a-n The Artists Information Company and contributors edit@a-n.co.uk technical@a-n.co.uk http://sites.a-n.co.uk/img/logo.gif http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Alternative Platform is the Art Plus 07 project by Jon Adams, Dyslexic  disability Artist. A bit of the history first: Encouraged by DaDa South and while on an AA2A residency at Portsmouth University, I decided in 2006 to apply for Art Plus 07. In June 06 I received a development award and in August started to work on the project by negotiating with rail companies to become partners and sponsors. I received the final award in March at Milton Keynes Gallery, not bad for someone who was told at school he was 'retarded', 'stupid' and would 'never amount to anything'. ometimes what you learn at school stays with you and can be a hard thing to shift.July 3rd:  Came home from London to find a rail pass from one of the major rail companies posted through the door.  Very excited, so much so I couldn't sleep, starts to sink in that this is going to 'happen'. This has been a major development experience for my practice and for the direction my work has taken. Guess this means I can start traveling on the network, looking at Stations and getting a feel for the work I will be leaving at each of them. Looks like Brighton Station will be first.July 4th: Project goes live. First journey, Fratton to Brighton. Head off to meet with  PR company and then managers at the Station. So much to initiate now, from needing to attract travelers to accompany and interview, to presenting the project to the press. Took photographs to work with and talked with station staff. Think i will now need to find a gallery in Brighton to approach and involve and further sponsorship if i am to engage with the pieces I now envisioned making.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 6th Spend the morning writing, seem to have done nothing but writing for months.Unfortunately we live in a ‘world of word' and I seem to have so much to write for this project and for the applications I am submitting that I feel like I am drowning.It's not so much the ‘obvious' aspects of dyslexia, I can read and write, very slowly, its more the ‘fear' of writing that affects me. This all stems back to the abuse I received at school when I was 10-11. I would have to start to write. Up until that point I had ‘camouflaged' my poor literacy skills quite well. My last junior teacher worked this out and for the next year made it deliberately very ‘uncomfortable' for me with seemingly innocent ‘Spelling tests' and ‘stories'. Each time, I would get ‘special treatment' when work was handed back, verbal abuse, mockery and embarrassment, this is what lost me my confidence in writing and people. I had to hide. Sometimes I feel that ‘writing' is comparable to sticking sharp pins (or splinters) in the ends of my fingers, a feeling I recently physicalized in a piece of work.The afternoon is much better as I spend the time with a fellow CIBAS ‘creative champion' (see the blog). We discuss past and present influences on our differing practices and work out some ways we can collaborate on each other's projects. I find this exciting but the time passes to quickly, and again I affirm that I will not ‘slip into isolation' again. Been there, done that! 25 years as a ‘home alone' illustrator so I didn't have to meet and work with people. Saturday 7thAgain I have to write in the morning but at last seem to be making headway. Have to stop at lunchtime and catch a train to ‘Artsway', in the new Forrest. Well several trains! Plan to continue writing on the train, ironically to do with the rail project, unfortunately 4 ‘pensioners' also get on and disturb the whole carriage by playing poker and swearing loudly. Even the music I am listening to full volume cannot cut through the ‘blue' language and I can visibly see everyone cringing and settling lower into their seats. Am not temped to continue, the swearing reminds me of school and feels like ‘loud interference' I am unable to block out.A final intervention by the ‘guard' stops the ‘blue' element but not the volume, so I move further away. Will remember this incident and make something with the feelings stirred. Finally get to Artsway, it's their 10th anniversary so have ‘open house' to the studios, gallery and finally a celebratory buffet. Decide to ‘leave' the word ‘tin' hidden within the gallery space to tease the ‘exhibitions' manager. Seems obvious as to why? . Am able to do some networking for and about ‘alternative platform' and find a shared love of all things geologic with the partner of an ACE:SE officer. Promise him some fossils as geology was my first degree and I weave its themes and processes into some of my current work. Return not on the train but with Jan and Chris AKA ‘Caravan Gallery' who live a few streets away. This is very welcome, as I couldn't face the train and creates another chance to have a conversation with other creative people...Sunday 8thAll I will say about today is .... More writing with no redeeming possibilities.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 9thAgain I work on proposals.........writing.... My desire to ‘make something' is so great I also work on the treated ‘boxes' and ‘book' that I use to submit with.There is a brief diversion as I spend some of the day, with the Admin contact, working on the application paperwork to send out for the AA2A scheme at the University. (Artists Access to Art Colleges). I was on this brilliant scheme in 05/06 and have never looked back, it gave me contact with other artists and confidence in my work and practice. This was the first time I had had much to do with an ‘Art College' as I never went due to the ‘wonderfulness' I experienced at school. They kept me on as a mentor for the 06/07 in-take and now I find myself coordinator for the coming year's artist's scheme.The evening is hectic as I prepare for tomorrow's trip to ACE in Brighton. The glue on one of the boxes will not dry...... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 10thCatch train at 9 am and thank goodness its quiet. Spend the whole journey finishing the ‘rail' application. Am so taken with the writing I fail to notice Worthing's ‘17' stations! (Well It can seem like it) and have to save and shut the computer down hurriedly as we approach Brighton.Spend some time ‘looking' at the station trying to not look like I am ‘checking it out' even though I am. Very aware of the current climate in the country.Have encouraging and productive meetings at ACE, deliver the ‘sharks teeth' as promised and manage to subversively ‘leave' a row of books in a corridor and the word ‘reflection' (Some 2nd year architecture students diaries of a ‘Disability arts' project we did for ‘squaring the Circle' a few months before) .Over lunch I have a long conversation with the Disability Arts Officer, I first rang in July 05. She ‘enabled' me to change my practice direction and encouraged me to ‘work with my impairments' and to contact others such as Dada South. We talk about the current renaissance and mainstreaming of ‘quality' Disability Arts in the South East. Encouraged I explain about ‘dadar', pronounced day-dar, a word I coined the previous day. It's the instant bond you ‘feel' upon meeting a fellow ‘Hidden disabled' artist/ person even if they do not immediately ‘explain'. I guess it stems from shared experience, universality and empathy, ‘synesthesic gift' or maybe more, you just seem to ‘know' and feel hence feel ‘safe' to disclose.Spend the next few hours in the ‘lanes' attempting to find books from my childhood to ‘treat'. Able to find ‘far from the madding crowd' but unable to get ‘Midwich cuckoos' the one I really wanted. Intrigued to also find a recent copy of, ‘The curious tale of the dog in the nigh time' A must read for partners or prospective partners of ‘artists with aspergers' Thus engaged I end up having to run for a train.Spend the evening with ‘Aspex' at their staff barbeque on the beach in Old Portsmouth. All quiet until 9 when ‘someone' rudely interrupts by deciding to fall, jump or be pushed off the nearby ‘Round tower'. We notice a person struggling to get to shore and collapsing in the surf at the towers base and some head over. They haul him from the sea and call the emergency services, as he is obviously hurt. We then get 2 Fire engines, 2 inshore rescue craft, police, defence launches from the harbour and finally an ambulance, 43 people in all. After they all go we then get the press, who interrupt the ongoing ‘stone skimming' contest. Take a few stones home with me for inclusion in a piece I am currently working on.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 11thToo mentally exhausted to write much today, so spend part of day in the garden ‘artistically' weeding and arraigning plants and stones. My excuse is I am preparing for an ‘allotment' piece I have been asked to do later in the year...... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Thursday 12thCelebration, finally finish 2 of the applications I am working on, only another 7 to go before the August and September's deadlines. Send one as a draft to one of the rail companies for checking before I submit finally. Nobody ever told me (or warned Me) that being an ‘artist' involved so much writing. I constantly get told that we dyslexics are ‘naturally drawn to the arts and art colleges because we don't have to write much there, just draw'. Don't you believe it, have they never been? It may have something more to do with the way we ‘learn' and are ‘wired-up' for picture rather than ‘word'.Meet another new artist in the evening at a ‘networking' event. I have never met most of them before but my ‘dadar' flags up one of them and we start to generally chat. I tell them a bit about my self and work, and after seeing its safe they ‘reveal' and am soon pointing them in the direction of Dada South for info and support.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 13th Head to Salisbury and visit the main gallery. Had some work on display there recently (Intrusion struckture 11 and 'dyslexic library, now on show in ICI in London) but was unable to attend the Private view or exhibition so was curious about the space. Also wanted to talk about setting up some sort of ‘showing' or collaboration/ workshops for ‘alternative platform' later in the life of the project. Afterwards, I check out bookshops for an old orange covered copy of ‘Midwich cuckoos' but again am unsuccessful. So head over to and sit in the cathedral for a while.Am due to give a ‘speech' at a school for ‘children who are dyslexic or have aspergers' (or a mix like me) the next day so spend the evening talking with staff at their ‘summer do'. I have to leave early, to think about what I am to say next day, as I still find ‘public speaking' quite daunting and need to be well prepared.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday 14thArrive in the morning and am made very welcome. The school is such an ‘enlightened' contrast to my own experiences at junior school its almost emotionally overwhelming. Leave the word ‘dream' hidden in one of the rooms. I am nervous and ‘reserved', but speak and it goes very well, able to weave and contrast my experience with theirs, this resonated especially with the parents. Speak about ‘AP' and have interest from parents from London who wish to take part in the ‘conversations on the trains' when they start. Am asked after, if I could ‘go' back and change what happened to me ‘would I? I explain, calmly, that I wouldn't. Without having experienced ‘my journey', I would have little ‘depth' to draw upon, I wouldn't be ‘creating the ‘issue based work', the ‘layers' within the work, nor would I be in the position I am with ‘alternative P'. I have no idea what life would be like without constant ‘emotional', ‘mental' and ‘physical' pain I feel now? I don't want to because this is ‘me'. I first had to learn to embrace and accept that this is my reality and evolve, my past informs but it doesn't ‘dictate' my practice any more. I can see that it wont benefit me to dwell on ‘what if' as I just don't know. It's irrelevant, yet an interesting question, one we all ask at some point.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Sunday 15thTried to do nothing all day as very tired, as always you get 'ideas' and have to record them one way or another. Artists don't switch off. Real pain as have to write some of the day. Just wanted to switch off.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 16thGot up knowing i would have to write till lunchtime, after yesterday this looked even more gloomy. Did it though and actually achieved a fair bit. Was working on a bursary application, 'what would i like to develop with the money?' Judging by the state of the weather here i fancy creating lines in a hot 'Dessert', Nazca Style. Doubt if i will get away with it so act a bit more conventionally. All i desire to do is develop, create and show. Applications at present feel the biggest barrier ti fulfilling this.Head off to Aspex Gallery in early afternoon, they are hosting a 'Social enterprise' event. Meet up with UnLtd, based in London. They gave me an award last year to look in to setting up a network based in Portsmouth for Dyslexic artists of any description. (anyone interested in hearing more? dyslabel@gmail.com) They are quite unique as they are one of the only organizations who give grants to individuals. They very pleased with the progress so will drop in to their London office  over next few weeks to tie things up. Meet with both familiar and non people and leave to head home. Had a look at main gallery exhibition too, very 'blue'. No rain?... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 17thWent into University early to have a quick discussion about artwork/ publicity for a 'Disability Arts event' in December to mark the 'International day of the Disabled person'. To-wards the end i received a call from a 'rail company' whose accessibility manager is in Portsmouth 'would i like to be introduced to his replacement?' Head off to the station to present project (again...) and show examples of locations around the main station where the work would fit in. This all goes well and spend some time shadowing them on a few journeys. Unfortunately i get off at Fareham to return to Portsmouth and it takes me just under 2hrs to get back as i can only travel on 'selective' trains at present. Will be so much easier when i have passes to travel on the other networks trains. Still gives me chance to chat with staff about AP and gather some 'stories'. Work some more on the bursary application and outlining AP and what i have just heard, when i get in.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 18th Spend a few hours first thing updating this blog: Then head to London via 'Hove' to meet with Stevie Director of DaDa South (DS), Sign Dance Collective (SDC), an Artist (whose project it is) and the National Arts Development Manager of Mencap about a prospective 'sound' collaboration for an 'intervention'. Project sounds very interesting and respect and enjoy working with SDC and DS so throw my lot in with them. As an access enablement for David B from SDC a small 'acid yellow' figure was used. Whoever held the figure was entitled to speak so he could follow who was speaking one at a time by lip reading. Aaaarhg yellow! Don't touch yellow (Aspergers thang!)Devil drives a yellow car: I bullied myself into painting this (with covered and prepared books) last year at a solo ahow about 'abuse' (violently ill while painting it), revisited it this year at 1st Disability arts open at Holton Lee, along with 'my school pen'and won the Judges prize.Compelled to 'keep quiet' till could hold it in no longer and asked for the 'figure' to be put on my paper pad, one finished it was 'flicked' it to next person to speak. Ended up being quite amusing diffusing the unease i felt at the 'yellowness' (Aspergers goes hand in hand with synaesthesia, and mine certain colours i 'feel' and 'taste' yellow creating a foul fungus taste and fear. Complicated my work as an illustrator for a long time, maybe thats why i prefer B/W. Can get very complicated. Read 'curious tale of dog in the night time' and you will understand)Headed to London Bridge but had difficulty reading the train info to get back and had never been through there before and it was very busy so headed to Victoria which i Know well and like. Trip back on train interesting and quite surreal. A very young child a few seats away spent most of the journey pointing and shouting at a woman in the seat behind calling her a 'bagel'. Luckily she was asleep and i still cannot see the connection? Very DADA. Gave me time to note down the locations and ideas i had seen for artwork at Victoria and other stations on the way.In late, tired and i have to be in London again tomorrow.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Thursday 19th Today i went to Brixton, South London. Hadn't been there for 25 years, not since i lived near when i was at Kings College in 1980.(geology) Hadn't changed a lot just seemed busier and full of 'mobile phone' shops. Train up from Portsmouth again to Victoria, was disappointingly uneventful, gave me time to again write down some ideas and work on them. Spoke with the 'conductor/ guard' for a while about AP. Visited a long standing disability artist about a future commission that may well turn out to be quite involved. Had a very good time and it was important for me as i learnt about some of the roots of disability arts in the UK. Its all very well to 'read' about but comes to life when you hear experiences first hand. A chronology of disability arts can be found on the 'Disability Arts Online' website. Rarely get to engage like this with other disability artist, esp as i'm a 'newcomer' to the scene.  Again the journey back was uneventfull, still cannot get the picture of the 'woman as bagel' out of my mind. Quite disturbing, as PW aspergers tend to be very literal in a sometimes pedantic way but always pictorial!. A spade is a spade, a digging instrument for the garden........... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 20th Attended university graduation today and learnt the results of some of the students i had been working with. All really good so was pleased for them. Sorted out some items for a gallery submission with a senior technician in Biology. Spent some time explaining about the work and how dyslexia and genetics are entwined. Was time well spent and ordered.Walked to Aspex to meet with Alex from  'explore', their out of gallery arts program. Sat in the 'ARC' room and had a chat. (It was a ARC session 2 and a bit years ago that pointed me in the direction of ACE....) Would i be interested in working for a day and installing an intervention on an allotment. Yep, proposed something and its sorted..... read about it on September 3rd.Walked back with Alex from explore, again i now take every chance to chat with fellow artists and dream up future collaboration. Such a difference from self inflicted reclusive-ness...... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd Both days a blur of writing the bursary applications, a document to present to a Rail company next week and preparing boxes, i cannot separate them... Was ok as the boxes dried outside in the sun. Watched a few films to break up the days and played about programming a few of the synthesisers i have, no reading involved.....Actually had time to create today, felt goodhad space so reflected on my 'journey'. I had been asked a few days before if i could change my past, would I? I dont think i would not really, it informs what i am and do, even the abuse....besides who knows? and does it matter? What does matter is todays aniversary, is its the 2 years to the day since i first rang Arts Council Enland... will have a drink...cheers SP........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 23rd Guess?  Writing, spent Morning finishing a few illustrations for an application and printing out for Tuesday, then sealed the box containing them. had to leave it all out to go to a meeting bout an event i am planning later i the year. Find you get into something, a piece of work or a poem then you loose flow by having to stop midway. Prefer to spend all day on one thing rather than bits but thats getting rare....at the moment.Spent evening discussing with 2 friends, a filmmaker and another artist how to begin a collaborative relationship for a new body of work i am evolving. Very exciting as the way we will work will influence the way we relate to each other and hence the outcomes. The 'journey and story' are the most important aspect at this stage and that is constantly changing shape. This documented experimentation will push contextual boundaries around 'written word, personal space and vulnerability' as well as being he basis for a series of new digital and 3D work. Lots of rain, Lots of wine, good food and intense conversations. Walked home buzzing with ideas, will write these down on the train tomorrow and talk with ACE and gallery later in week.When i illustrated books, no one was readily interested how i did the work, the research, the roughs, just that the end product fitted the brief. I always felt this was a waste as i found the process the most interesting and exciting but drawing the final illustration the least. Now its 180 degrees turnaround and i prefer this, much more inspiring and creative. What or where is it going to lead too? Guess thats why i found 'fossil' hunting so stimulating, you never knew what was going to be 'uncovered' next. I try to weave that 'energy' in to my current work.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 24thBig day.... Have two 'interviews'. One is a presentation of Alternative platform to 2 senior managers of a rail company i wish to work with and for a 'Dada Exchange' position, both in London.At least no rain and the train to East Croyden is relatively empty and quiet enabling me to Transfer the presentation into a 'memory journey' and sit back. Did a bit of writing first about last night but have only managed to make myself feel 'seasick', not a great start. Get to EC very early so take a look around. When i Lived in London i never managed to get down here. Checked out the warehouse-theater, SDC had had a production there the previous month. Soon time to present and am made very comfortable to do so and it goes very well. Will wait to hear......how we commence the collaboration.Next head up to London bridge for the Dada Exchange interview which also seems to go well. Will not hear till next week though so more waiting. Dada South have always enabled me as an artist with 'complications' in all i have tried to achieve in the last 2yrs, without their understanding, presence and ACE:SE backing the south east would be 'colder' place for us 'complicated'  people. Enabling doesn't mean 'doing it for you' nor 'holding my hand' its just 'confidence' and support. DADA Corks......Dare to return via LB but train home full so i sit and 'people watch' guessing their stories........Notice that there seems to be allot of yellow in this carriage, creating a slight 'interference noise'  that intrudes slightly into the ideas and conversations i am planing.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 25th Tired, its starting to catch up with me. Spend the morning writing an application for Aspex open submission, Emergency 3. Will put this in next week as haven't finished by the time i have to leave (interruptions again!) to head to Brighton. Join the train at Fratton, its quite full so find seat and settle. Am mistaken by conductor for a Rail worker investigating the 'annoying whistle' in that particular carriage. Explain I'm not and talk about AP. Trouble is after he has gone there is an 'annoying whistle' all be it intermittent that i hadn't noticed before. Now i do and it stands out... almost 'tinnitus' in its intrusive presence once noticed, ironic as this is one of the projects i am working on. (Pedantically i notice this noise is hovering around E whereas 'my tinnitus' is B flat )Thankfully distracted, as i notice red and white granite stones newly laid between the lines from Nutbourne station on-wards. Later this is covered up by a very noisy child who insists on screaming, can't win....Arrive in Brighton (with headache) and unusually promptly get lost looking for the Gallery, The Lighthouse. Embarrassingly i have to ring and soon find the gallery down near the ACE:SE office. I have come to meet with Dada South and to the showing of a new video work by Sabine Gruhn called 'Nonsense on stilts'. This was a 'go make' commission funded by ACE and commissioned by Dada South and the Lighthouse-Brighton. Catch up with all the Dada staff earlier and with ACE/ Art Plus staff and friends during the evening. The Installation showing is really moving and imaginative and this is followed by the artist talking about her work. Exciting and mainstream....Informed during the evening that a 'major' gallery have kept one of my interventions on permanent show since i left it back in March. Excited, makes a change from them getting stolen, not that I mind that either. Catch last train home to Portsmouth, mostly uneventful although do chat with one passenger about his life  'journey'.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Thursday 26th Late night last night so slow start today. Important meeting at 11 about a residency application. Work on an application illustration then walk into the university. Meet with the Dean of Technology about application. Goes really well and the residency outline is sorted. Come away allot happier now i know what is expected on both sides. Felt welcome.Spend rest of morning , early afternoon preparing as i have important interview at gallery. Pouring down so leave early so i can dry out after arriving, before meeting with the gallery director and exhibitions manager. We sit and chat for a while, goes well and i explain initial submission idea, learn a valuable lesson about experimentation and 'process'. I go with the project that i feel for me is the most different to what i have done before and secure a commitment to be shown at some point in 2008. Really great as this gives me the opportunity to develop and experiment. Learn the difference between an 'open' submission and developing a working relationship that doesn't revolve around a 'fixed outcome'. They acknowledge how far Ive come and the hard work this has taken especially being 'seen', something i have always hidden from. Feel my practice is 'trusted', not a feeling that has often made its presence known until recently.Stay for the 'artist talk' and then chat with gallery staff and other artist. Invited out after with some of the staff and artists and my DADAR is proved 'so right' again, so don't get in till 12 again......p.s.  Well done FF on your new adventure......... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 27th Interesting day. Spend some of it with KG, fellow CIBAS creative champion. We sit, discuss, create and evolve ideas to-wards a collaborative project to do with her (fab) jewelery practice. (watch this space) Am able to help with some sound editing issues and software and maybe some illustration for her. We bounce ideas and am able to share about the 'new body' of work i am developing. This is a stripping back, an 'Unisolation', artists cant work in isolation, i used too, yet another life-lesson. Somehow and ironically these journeys always lead back to 'geological layering'. I feel 'safe' connecting my ideas with a few select people now, K (and S) being one, i respect their feedback and honesty as stops you developing dead ends and from become 'insular' ( a polite way of saying 'up yourself!)and keeps you in check. This is like 'oxygen' to me, was self-taught to shy away from this contact, all connected to those imposed self-image issues that i continue to work through and wrestle with, but i find that this openness is the way forward. Exciting too as again you never know the way the work or collaborations will progress.....'need to breathe'Drenched walking home.... ideas don't keep you dry... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday 28th Feel kind of empty today? Been working so hard recently its time for a rest. Do a few drawings on the computer, a small amount of writing then go for a walk. Watch some films later, just to let someone else do the 'picture' work....Haunted this week: cant get one picture out of my head and its like a slomo flashback during a film. Out, one morning, i watched a 'woman fall'. I was to far away to stop it, her legs buckled and she just fell like a 'demolidhed building', just sinking into the ground. Trouble is she looked at me right in the eyes as she did. Her expression of supprise sharply changed to a 'grimace' of pain, but all in slow motion. 'Eye to eye' contact is normally a strange possibility for someone with 'aspergers' and sposedly a very intimate experience. Allwas quiet, it blocked everything else out but she then 'broke' contact, broke the 'spell' an 'atachment' as she hit the ground and the 'world' shouted back...became apparent and very loud. Rain-traffic- Noise...NoiZe!  Found it very disturbing but also calming. She was alright, just shaken but I couldn't bring myself to talk to her the connection had been so intense. 'Look into my eyes', maybe it true that can be more intense than touch? ?couldn't sleep so many ideas but not enough time or words to record them before they slip away, out of my reach when i eventually drop off.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Sunday 29th Take a quiet day again and draw for a bit....Sat in sun with some paper, a pen and some Korn on CD......Themes arround blame intreage me. At school my 'deficiencies' steming from my un-diagnosed 'dyslexia' (well it was called 'stupidity' and i was called 'retarded' then) was always my fault.  If i spoke well in the class i was always told i was 'lazy' for not handing written work of the same quality in. If i wrote my name wrong or spelt something wrong on a drawing, i had always 'spoilt' the 'work'. One teacher, One incident at 11 stopped me from drawing for 10 years, 'what you learn at school stays with you?' after all they are adults and 'in charge'....... they must be right?  Normal fault- always mine?common amongst dyslexics is low-confidence steming from 'school experience' with teachers. Reverse fault- their fault?'We dont need no 'edukashon', they do..........'... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 30thCaught up at last: Worked on starting the new website most of the day and also some admin. Played music till late last night/ early this morning as just couldn't sleep again. Have some important meetings this week and just can't seem to rest....Have two of the 3 applications almost done and will hand them in later this week. Still feel nervous about handing 'written' work in, gets to me. Big deal. One of the rail companies had a meeting today about sponsoring the project, just waiting to hear. waiting to hear from the other as well as a part time job- maybe why i am restless. Don't do 'change' well. Need it but just find it hard.Starting to receive invitations to other artists private views, quite exciting as have two to go to this week as it is. Also starting to get collaboration requests from other artists too inc emails  from other 'dyslexic' artists just to share experience. Big change for me, always shy-ed away before. Feel practice evolving too. http://alternativeplatform.googlepages.com/home... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 31st Spent most of today working on a new website, http://alternativeplatform.googlepages.com/home Total trial and error, but keep getting requests to see my work on line, so had to go for it.no spell checker though so feel very vulnerable.....Met with some senior lectureres at the university in the afternoon about an ongoing arts and disabillity project. There is close collaboration between the Social work lectureres PS the Social work inclusion group K and SO a lecturer in SCAFM. The project will create contacts betwwen all three groups to engage the students from both Social wk and Art, film and media. I will be an example of a practicing artsit who happens to be 'disabled' and advice on 'disability arts'. (part of my role here as research fellow. See 'inside out' )http://www.art-architecture.co.uk/insideout/index.php?location_id=53&item=7...We were meeting to plan the coming years projects. Last year my 'reaction to my dyslexia' was the subject of one of the visiting students dissertations so spent time with him being interviewed. It revealed personal detail and issues long burried about the abuse i recieved at school. I have transcripts and the recordings so may use this at some point as the basis for a piece. Cris cross as i normally use other peoples words and stories. I dont 'make' autobiopgraphical themed work to feel better, its not therapy, thats the 'basket weaving mentality theory'. something like this.... 'Lets put the disabled in the corner and they can weave themselves better!' I make to have it in the open, not hidden, i dont like 'suprises'. i can 'see' what i am dealing with then.Worked on application in the evening not listening to Korn (nb This post has been writen on a computer with no spell check)... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 1st Went to Artsway today.....realy good dayWill write more later as very tired...Went to meet with PB and HS at Artsway-Scan about a project i will be doing with them next year. Really good meeting, good discussion and very creative. Lots of options am quite excited. Train over was OK, pretty hot but was there quite quickly. Discovered 2 things:I was asked about why i left the word 'TIN@ a few weeks before, Easy- Misspelled TEN and tin is the 'anniversary' element for 10 years.On the way back i found an 'intervention' i had left 9 months before was still in place...At the station i was able to advise someone of the best train to catch. (Yep i know its starting to get 'sad' but am getting to know the train times and routes. The first person to use the TS word gets it.) We chatted and shared the journey back as far as Southampton. Interesting lady, interesting chat, turns out she is a choreographer from Winchester. rest of journey passed uneventfully and quick. Spent evening looking at project examples on the Internet.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Thursday 2nd Spent the morning finishing the proposal for Aspex emergency 3 and printed it out, packed it in box and sealed it. Will drop it off today. Went into the university for a few hours. Just in time as it started to pour with rain hard, so gave up idea of walking to Aspex. Some 'supplies' for a future piece themed around dyslexia and genetics had arrived so went to collect them.Left and went to meet KG about our joint project we are planning. Had creative conversations and the time passed to quickly. Left to walk home, took a few pictures on way home and collected some tea.Spent rest of the evening setting up a new website for CODA. Community Of Dyslexic Artists, a project i have been preparing for and hope to get started in the Portsmouth area in the next few months. (Again its a googlepages website so take a look)http://joncoda.googlepages.com/home... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 3rd Long Day....Left for London on the Victoria Train at 9:30, needed to be there at 12. Got off at East Croydon and headed to London Bridge. Fist, walked via Bough Market to Tate Modern, very full but wanted to see the Dali expo. I then needed to be in Islington, near the Barbican for a meeting with my project worker from UnLtd. (CODA project funders) Met with U and explained how far i had got with preparing. Went well and left for the Barbican Centre. Back in 1982 i had worked as a gallery attendant there. This was the first time i had been back since then. (Spent a year there, so happened to meet a few famous people who visited the gallery of theater.) It felt very strange yet uncomfortable familiar too. My most vivid memory was 'Friedrich Stowasser' sitting on a humus toilet he installed in his show. It was deserted, empty, resonant, so sat a while, then visited the gallery level and left out on that level and started for Morgate station.Found some 'hidden' work. (see pic)Headed over to the West end to get a lens and Flash gun for my  new camera. It went smoothly and somewhat financially painful, was very hot so sat in pub with Cider n ice before leaving at 6 for Tate Britain. Late at Tate....Meet up with J and C from Caravan Gallery.. They were very busy all the time i was there. caravan looked smashing parked out front. Headed inside and after looking around for 10-15 minutes 'left' a word 'somewhere' in there.......tried to take picture but was  unsuccessful. Went back out and met with J and R from Aspex gallery. Spent time with them but had to leave at 8 to get train from Victoria home. Very tired on train and in allot of pain. When i get tired my ME (or CFS) plays up and i feel it worse in my legs and hands. Sometimes am unable to hold pencil and draw. Takes its toll. Need a rest..... Respite on journey! There was a guy on the train who walked up n down the carriage asking for tickets, brought some humor as he wasn't the conductor but did comic 'performance'. In late....... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday 4thSpent most of day intimately involved with camera manuals in garden. Hot. I was taught how to use a camera at the age of 7-8 by my father. he was photographer in the Navy so always had a camera in his hand, from my earliest memory. My very first camera was a box Brownie which although the first film taken (at the zoo) was well exposed all the exposures were doubles as i had clicked twice on the 'lever'. My first camera was bought with a fiver i found on the way back from school when i was 9! I was taken to Portsmouth and was bought a secondhand 6x6 Agfa for £3. I used this until my first SLR a Russian Zenit. Because they were all manual i learnt the relationships between shutter speed and aperture. Even used a light meter. Since then i have been through all-sorts.  plate cameras, roll film, Minolta SLRs etc. So back in the 80's i always dreamed of having a pro-amera let alone thought of 'digital'.... Had pictures published for a while but gave up in early 90s after six months as a wedding photorapher...so it nice to get back to some 'creative photography' with possibility.Dropped emergency 3 submission off at Aspex and caught train to Hove. Had received an invite to a private view a few days before. (3rd space) The work was displayed in the basement of a Georgian townhouse in Hove, and very interesting. One of the artists was involved in one of the other Art Plus 07 awards project. Thought the 'wings' were themed very geological, intimate and moving. balmy evening, quite hot.Train was full heading back with visitors to Brighton, so had to stand part of the way. In at 10 and spent more time with manuals..........very tired.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Sunday 5thTotally exhausted. So spent some time in garden but unable to do much other than paint one wall. Spent some time with new camera manuals and updating this.......Deliberatly uneventful.need space to think, hone ideas and prioritize next few months...... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 6th Will not be writing much today.Today my word and thoughts are dedicated in memory of those 10,000's who died at 'Hiroshima' in 1945.'43 seconds' is all it took for the bomb to fallWhat would you say?what would you do in 43 seconds if you knew that was all that you had left?'we all have fallen'... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 7th Spend day involved with grant applications. In eve go to the informal CIBAS Creative champions meeting, conveniently held in a pub local to the Art College. Good meeting, spend most of the time composing answer to the council about the current cultural strategy. After able to just talk. Like all artists we are prone to get tired and low and meeting others for mutual support really helps........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 8thHead up to London to Meet friends from Dada-South and Brighton. Have a good meeting and we go to look at the Dali expo after. They pick up on fact i am low, so I'm not 'hiding' it to well, something you get polished at (but what people don't realize is its at these times I tend to be very creative) Spend some time with LDC after others leave and have 'creative' conversations for a couple of hours. Write furiously ideas down on way home. I can feel very isolated in Portsmouth sometimes......... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday and Sunday 12thFinished my shoe and box for the Global shoe project, have a look athttp://www.globalshoeproject.page.tl/ Orange box with torn words.why torn words and an orange centre?   i was abused badly and bullied at school so i turned inwards. I hid from people for 30 years. I felt 'safe' in my world of rocks, fossils and geology at 12 years old. geology is stiff safe to me. The covering is 'torn' from a geology book i bought aged 12. v personal to me. the orange is the colour of one who has 'self-harmed' but now has stopped. i work with autobiographical themes now to stop this abuse and bullying by publicity, because kids are dyslexic doesn't mean they are 'stupid like i was told everyday, i do this so that no one has to feel they need to hide.Spend most of the night in garden staring at the sky watching the best meteors i have seen.Monday 13th New computer comes (with a few difficulties!) so spend next few days sorting this out and loading software. Dare to make some 'sounds' with new software, unfortunately I am supposed to be preparing forms. (may have to clean house next! anything but forms)May hear from one of the rail companies this week........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 14thHead out in evening for a fellow dyslexic artists birthday party (R) in a Local bar, get soaked walking there, but loads turn up and catch up with some friends I haven't seen for ages. meet some more fellow dyslexics too. (dadar) Walk home head buzzing with a new idea, write notes when get in as cant sleep. Still low..others too, must be something in the 'air'. Lack of sun- too much rain?... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 15thCatch train to London for informal chat with a potential funder for AP. Meet another artist who invites me to collaborate and screen some of my films on his Internet TV station. Will do that..more later.  Catch quite a late train home. Sit in London for some of the day, the feelings remind me of when i was at university, in those days i was a very solitary person, even with all these people passing and the buzz but you can still feel isolated and very 'alone'. Everyone caught in their own world. Guess I am tired.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 17th Momentous day - actually get into workshops and start making.................Spend evening out till very late plotting intervention event in London later in the year... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Tuesday 21stSad day.Intervention 'cut book, cutting words for a dyslexic' no 1 is 'taken' from foyer of the Art College........This leaves only 3 of the six left in place arround the country.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 22nd People start to 'miss' the 'book' as its become to be known and ask me to put it back. I have to explain that is not been moved but taken and an official inquiry is started!. I suggest half heartedly and a bit sarcastically that CSI would solve it within 56 minutes with 'super software'! Some people tell me i should feel flattered that its been taken, as people have tried to 'buy' them where they are on show. ( I refused to 'label' the work at any of the 6 places)It may still show up.......Start making labels for A Lot Ment on Sunday 2nd Sept, an aspex 'explore' event here in Portsmouth.have a look at...http://www.aspex.org.uk/explore.htmMake 'jewelery' in afternoon with 'K' ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Thursday 23rdSpend morning running round tying up loose ends. Then work with 'K' to make some jewelery in the workshops. We then both head to the ARC event at aspex.'Book' still missing...................... foyer very empty... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Friday 24th Take a look at a 'studio' for rent in the morning with some friends who may take it.  Then spend rest of day sorting applications. Get V tired.Invited by SD to 'perform' a piece I wrote, recorded and did in Portsmouth in June with them later in September at a private view. Need to install 'yellow line, division' too for them to move over.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Saturday 25th Catch train to London to visit Tate Modern with C for the day. Good day. In one of the rooms much to my pleasure I find 2 pictures I hadn't seen for over 25 years , ones I spent 4 months with back in the 80's. In 1983 I worked in the Barbican art gallery for the year waiting to go back to university. During that time there were several exhibitions, 'City of London Collection' where i met Herbert Lomb, 'Carpet magic', 'Hundertwasser' where i met him at the private view sitting on the 'Humus toilet' he installed in the gallery (non-functional!) and the one that had the biggest impression upon me, an exhibition of work by Asger Jorn. These are the pictures i saw today, 'Timid Proud one' and 'letter to my son'  Fantastic, have real feelings for them.ballanced by: While outside for a break in the sun, got very 'disturbed' by a man with performing budgies, so went back in. Ironically and rather annoyingly , was caught taking a photo om my mobile of a 'space' when there were people with 'obvious' cameras snapping away at the pictures.....Chat with station staff at East Croydon on way home, hopefully will hear soon........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Sunday26thCan't seem get going as am very tired so have a 'sofa' day and watch films.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Monday 27th Make boxes for applications from card, tear up books to cover them............and don't feel guilty anymore about doing so... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Sunday 2nd SeptemberTake part in A lot Ment for aspes Explore.'Tree of the knowledge of good and evil'Hang 12 'fruit' stories of life changing moments given to me.Alotment holders warm to this and invite me to hang next year...Leave some of the fruit when i leave.Tuesday 28th Finish applications and print them out.Waiting over, at last I have the news I have been waiting to hear for 15 months since i entered Art Plus last May.A major rail company has 'signed' up for 'Alternative Platform' and wishes to collaborate on the project!!!!!'Alternative Platform' is officially a 'live' collaborative project.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 Wednesday 5th September Alternative Platform starts today, recieved my badge with 'artist in residence' written on it. Seems strange but now it feels real. It was before but these few words in print make a difference. Strange though as they are just 'words' and not something magic to a dyslexic you can touch, must be the badge, the 'label?... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 17th Went to Sadlers Wells in London to the NDAF visioning Day... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 18th Visited ACE:SE in BrightonLeave 2 interventions.'ABC' and the ord 'DREAM'... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 20th Attended the Unltd Level 2 award seminar day.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 21st Took the Train to Holton Lee near Poole to perform with Signdance Collective at the opening of 'insider' showing in Faith House.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 22nd Spend the day with Signdance collective looking round Holton Lee. at the potential for other instalations within the forest.Driven aroud in a 'golf' cart........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 24th We meet to choose this years AA2A artists.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 25th Meeting at Arts Council Enland SE in Brighton... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 28th Sign on dotted line so Am Artist in Residence with Southern.Leave a word hidden in the foyer..... DREAMGo into London to meeting with Edward Lear Foundation and Architects for NDACA about the commission for a sculpture at Holton Lee within the Archive.Leave a word.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 September 29th and 30th Attend the 'openspace' event at the National Youth Theatre in London.Leave the word FILL... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 October 1st Catch train to Oxford to perform with Signdance Collective.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 October 4th Introduced to this years Social work students taking part in the cross department arts project with SWIG.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 October 8th CIBAS creative champions meeting in the evening... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 October 9th Meeting about Portsmouths Cultural and artistic futurehttp://dysable.googlepages.com/home... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 December 21stBlog will resume in a few daysLots to tell younot been to well but have been very busy... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 December 25thSpend some of the day on Coverack beach in Cornwall, taking photos and recording sound. Watched the 'Xmas' dip... mad.... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632 January Just getting the hang of the new system for adding posts. So will be updating this gradually over the next two weeks. Spent Christmas in Cornwall. New year at home. Wrote a short piece of usic for an ACE;SE funded project. Spent 2 weeks off with sinus infection (beats Flu!!) Heading to Europe to perform........ Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100 http://sites.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/378632