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.
Here’s One for the Vintage Lovers
Do you ever think about how a certain percentage of the things you own will find their end with you?
The Multiverse, string theory, and how we make choices.
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 Biographical Imperative: Reading Paul Simon like we’d read Taylor Swift
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?
A Brief* Response to Ill Met By Moonlight Conference: Fairy-Type Pokémon
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 →
The yin and yang of art
Music and literature are the yin and yang of art, the two poles of human experience, existing in horseshoe-similar extremes and creating opposite responses in the person engaging with them. Music and literature are both art, but they move in different ways, create a different effect on you, and cause you to feel in a... Continue Reading →
The Who?Siers: what it means to follow a band beyond success.
In the halcyon days of 2014 I went to a small gig by a band used to even smaller gigs. On the recording of that gig you can hear the incredulity in their voices multiple times over the course of the evening as the crowd go wild, singing and dancing with abandon. This is a... Continue Reading →
Building Goals and NOT Living For Tomorrow
Is success just pushing through sadness and fear? Does it mean difficulty or is it on the other side? I’m ambitious, but I’m also aware that I could be a simple kind of happy if I took a good job, worked creatively, fostered the kind of environment William Morris talked about where all my things... Continue Reading →
Veganised Lemon Meringue Pie (Recipe from Sylvia Plath Society mailing list)
I spent ages veganising this recipe, can somebody please make it?
Side Hustle or Passion Project?
I think most of us have a creative project in our bottom drawer or a business idea that we’re working on alongside our conventional job if you’re an idiot like me, you may even have both, things you couldn’t choose between and keep you very busy, but which can be tabled at a time when your ‘real’ work has to be your main focus.
Late Romantic 