writer | researcher | academic
I’m not normally one to crow about my relatives. I’ve never been close to most of them, was actively disowned by some of them, and spend what feels like half my life attempting to avoid the drama that the others wreak. I call my parents regularly, but neither I or they have been actively involved... Continue Reading →
On February 3rd, 1959, the biggest name in rock ‘n’ roll went down in a plane crash with two other stars and an inexperienced pilot. Although all four died, it was Buddy Holly’s face that made it onto the front pages, onto the television news reports, and his death that is the most remembered, with... Continue Reading →
At the Creative Bodies, Creative Minds conference I got to participate in a pan-disciplinary, cross-country conference that, whilst only tangentially related to my research and academic identity, was a valuable opportunity for me to learn from people that I wouldn’t normally encounter.
Unless you have known me a very long time indeed, you will likely not know that at the age of 11 I went to my friend Gina’s halloween birthday party dressed as my ‘inner self’. All the other kids were dressed as binbag witches or face-painted pumpkins, but I had just come back from holiday... Continue Reading →
We should turn to the big differences between the way children and adults play to establish where and how we ‘rewild’ ourselves.
It can be stifling, going to a gallery. Imagine if we could touch the artworks. If blind people could engage with the brushstrokes and the shape of the oils on a canvas. If children could play, and stare, and laugh. If the Old Masters were in a room with the Blue Riders, if we didn’t have to guard the paintings from natural light and thieves and damage.
Do you ever think about how a certain percentage of the things you own will find their end with you?
Alternate universes are not governed in the typical way we laypeople describe them - 'somewhere in an alternate universe', and don’t really function the way they do in art, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t take a closer look and use complicated mathematics to influence the way we live our lives.
The way we read Swift is gendered and somewhat modern: her 'eras' align with the aesthetics she presents, and stan culture has dissected every relationship she's ever had until we're all sure who or what inspired every song. What if we read other Grammy royals this way?
For many people, the behemoth Pokémon franchise is the place they encounter fairies in the day-to-day. It is the new frontier where children encounter fairies and fairy stories, but what can fairy-type Pokémon tell us about the reception of this stalwart Romantic image in C21? The design of fairy-type Pokémon plays on a number of... Continue Reading →
Late Romantic 