Science Crochet and Other Hypothesis

Cerbyd, an In-Tents Journey (Sorry!)

2010-07-26T01:22:00.000-07:00

( I`m so sick of Chinese spam comments.)
Following a non equilibrium growth process, I`ve temporarily moved my blog to another site. To see it click ,Here.
Science- Crochet may continue here, but maybe not.
As the Portugese say,
` Talvez, Talvez nau. Quem sabe?` - ` Maybe , Maybe not , who knows?`

Hyperspherical Hyperbolical Hype

2010-07-04T03:24:00.000-07:00

Hypersphere.

This photo is one of a series of romantic and beautiful studies by"Enid " on flickr. The series carefully and intellegently investigates domestic objects, as seen through the lens of a microscope. The concept and results reminded me of bits of my own investigation (great minds think alike ...) and brought to mind the quote from Blaise Pascal, `Nature is an infinite sphere of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere`.

He has many recorded quotes, i particularly liked `Meeting you was fate. Becoming your friend was a choice, falling in love with you I had no control over.`

Circling something in black, makes an interesting visual captive cage . Somehow, the boundaries don`t decrease or detract from the effect of the circles contents, illustrating the Pascal quote. Although it gives limitations within the boundaries, to the immediate dimensions of the image. More More circular work Here. I find circular shapes enchanting . Smooth, graceful ,perfect, optimistic, mysterious, silent, generous . There is a completeness and entity about the shape .

The simple circle is drawn in two dimensions, one of the first geometric shapes we understand as infants. Three dimensions and we have the glorious bouncing sphere. Animated and planetary. Above that in four or more dimensions the shape is called a hypersphere. As the dimensions in mathematical terms increase, my understanding decreases. Except the understanding of hyperbolic crochet that increases on a non Euclidean plane, in multi dimensions. The two dimensional circle and three dimensional sphere operate efficiently within the boundaries of Newtonian mechanics. To investigate the realms of the sphere within the supergalactic or subatomic, it becomes necessary to apply the laws of quantum, and to consider the application of further dimensions. Click the bar at the bottom to see a film.

... To Make Our Dreams Come True

2010-06-21T07:53:00.000-07:00

Happy Solstice everyone. Lets have a long, hot, happy and joy filled summer, shall we?

The great power that opperates the balance scales has been very kind to me today. I received a phone call this morning offering me a place on a project I really wanted to be involved with.

Its called Cerbyd, which is Welsh for bus.

The plan is this... ten artists on a bus, zig zagging around Wales . We will be stopping at a different location every day, including amoungst others, meeting steam railway enthusiasts, Appalation dancers, a group of George Formby enthusiasts, the National Botanical Gardens of Wales, the National Eisteddfod and , best of all ,The Institue of Physics, Wales.

Oh my word, real scientists. YYYYYIIIIIIPPPPPEEEEEEEE. Real, live, in the flesh scientists. Heheheheheheheheh!!!!

The idea is to inspire new projects and possible collaborations between artists from different parts of Wales, and to introduce artists to other strange obsessive groups of people. Well, the second bit may not be high on the list, but its an interesting aspect of the project.

I spent many years living in trucks and buses, travelling around England and Europe. Its a nice moment of `past-meeting-the-future-glitch-in-linear-time` for me.

Just like Cliff Richard and Una Stubbs. Click here for a sing song.

Seems Like a Little Bit of History Repeating...

2010-06-12T09:51:00.001-07:00

John Cale4, originally uploaded by birdlouise.

The Queens official birthday today. Have a nice one your Maj. In her honours list we have two well deserved awards.

First Professor Brian Cox- (super fox). If science is the new religion, Coxy is our begotten saviour, big time. Handsome, genius and media omnipresent. He received an OBE. He should be made king. Of the world, no, the Universe. He has done more to advance the public education in science matters than anything else ever. He has wonderful clarity of thought and a loyalty to his craft that is admirable. And he is breath- stoppingly gorgeous.

Also an MBE for the legend that is John Cale. The man behind the viola drone and most of the arranging on the Velvet Underground`s seminal album. Sometimes referred to as the `Banana`album. Real life living legend, experimental musician and superstar, he caused much opinion and conversation with his installation ` Dark Days`, in the Welsh pavilion ,at the Venice Biennale last year. His biography `Whats Welsh for Zen?` was an astonishing read.

Music and science. One and the same thing, inextricably linked. Scales, systems, maths and movement. The legend that was, or may have been, the pre-Socratic mystic and scientist, Pythagoras, had many beautiful theories about the links between what was then perceived as the Cosmos, and the mathematics that described music and the motions of planetary ellipses. After a vision from the God Thoth, he conceived `The Harmony of the Spheres`.

Johannes Kepler's 1619 treatise , `Harmonica Mundi `,was inspired by Pythagoras writings, you can hear a contenporary musical interpretation , click the link.

Kepler was one of the greatest mathematicians of that time. He wrote `Eponymous Laws for planetary motion `, which in turn informed (Sir) Issac Newtons laws on gravitational force.

So, a job traditionally filled by legends , is now safely being filled by my favorite public science figure. (Note I didn't use the term celebrity). Just so happens that Professor Brian Cox was also a pop star, before he became a scientist for a living.

The links between art and science.

I would love to discuss the origins of the universe with John Cale.

Nemesis Rising

2010-06-01T10:42:00.000-07:00

Louise Bourgeois died yesterday.

More tears for the dead. She was 98, and died of a heart attack. Watch out angels, Nemesis is on her way. Of course I never met her, but we all new her. She was all of us. She new us.

Thank you Louise, from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU.

Basic Systemic Mathematical Prosesses

2010-05-30T11:21:00.000-07:00

Richard Sweeney, check his paper work.

Creating mass from a basic mathematical system

Division of the Euclidean plain.

Singing `Say its only a paper boat...`

In the inevitable Welsh rain, The Oriel Myrddin gallery, Carmarthen, in wet south west damp Wales, carried on regardless and held an outdoor beach party to celebrate the opening of the current exhibition.

Because every one loves the gallery, and it is the best place ever to work, we had fun. But, even though I appreciate the chaotic principles behind the weather, and despite the application for divine intervention , it could have not rained for just one more day.

Mary our genius education officer and most wonderful person made some origami boats . I love the mathematics behind childhood craft practices. Division and multiplication with out even considering the Euclidean plain. Paper folding , perfect division. An every day occurrence, performed without premeditation by people every where. Ancient spiritual art as well. I think its this kind of banal but essential ritual that keeps our thought processes as alert and any deep study. Playing is essential even for the very grown up.

Druid`s Cord, Saint Asaph`s Loop

2010-05-26T10:41:00.000-07:00

A measurement of spacetime

For more `Druid`s Cord Saint Asaph`s Loop` Flickr pictures click. here

For short documentary films about past installations click here

or here

In its fullest form,the installation is a mixed media installation with performance.

I was very pleased to be selected for the Bath Arts Fringe exhibition. It will be my first show out side of Wales. Initially, I was to have a large dark space for one of my installations that have a DVD projection. Sadly, this was not to be, and after weeks of curatorial indecision and suspense - through no fault of the lovely curator Fiona Cassidy, I was allocated a space in a small room with six other artists. Hence the mightily pared down version of Druid`s Cord.

It works well in its condensed form. The spiritual and physical relationship between the looped DVD , and the eleven feet of crocheted fishing line is still evident. Although it has lost the feeling of envelopement and entity.

There is a moment in the DVD that I find particularly interesting. The screen is empty of the mechanical ,vertiginous image. The lens of the camera reacts with the bright sun on the very clear blue sky, and causes a lens flare that is almost off the top of the screen. That moment, to me , suggests a brief spiritual epiphany that is just within the reach of human endeavour. A tiny glimpse of the pure and ecstatic nature of enlightenment.

Sometimes when I am crocheting and thinking , I experience that feeling... An excitment that cannot be explained or planned. The briefest flicker, a gargantuan vision in a tiny moment. Then it dissappears. I consider myself at these times, very blessed.

On the DVD it lasts only a moment, and then the repetition begins to loop again.

Isotropic Lou-niverse

2010-05-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

Recovering slowly from from my sojourn into a personal deep, dark ,black hole, my darling friend Helen suggested a bit of occupational therapy to cheer me up. We spent two blissful days in the sunshine making felt. The un-spun wool, came from the flock of organic no kill sheep that she and her partner keep. (They don't kill the sheep, that is, not the sheep with murderous tendencies, suppressed from killing other things).

Looking most satisfied at the finished pieces, I noticed that the felt had a myriad tiny pieces of countryside shrunken into the fibres. This is unavoidable when working in a field, with a strange assortment of cobbled together hippy equipment. The pieces couldn't be seen at a distance, but were evenly spread and uniform on close inspection. I couldn`t have arranged them as delicately myself.

I looked up at the beautifully tended market garden surrounding us and it reminded me of a big luscious blanket of green. Smooth from a distance, but full of furrows , plants, stones and insects. All in turn made of further smaller and smaller matter.

The shape of the universe itself is homogenous like this. Referred to as the Isotropic nature of our universe. In the night sky, the stars cluster. Further out into space, the spiral arms of our galaxy have denser` foamy clusters`, and areas that appear empty. But over all, matter is evenly distributed through out the universe. Space is smooth, the inseparable concept of space time perfect. No matter where you stand, or which way you look .

I have been reading about Cosmic texture and cosmic string. The latter of these is a one dimensional topological defecr, a crack or crease, in the fabric of space time . How beautiful is that ?

Home Play Cosmolology.

2010-05-17T09:32:00.000-07:00

`Direct your eye sight inward, and you`ll find

A thousand regions in your mind

Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be

Expert in home- cosmography`

Henry D. Thoreau

Toys are inspirational. They have provided a universal point of recognition in more that one of my projects. A toy can act on the collective consciousness of many people, and acts as a public common denominator.

Even better , toys with a religious theme. Joy to find the Handy Bendy Gandhi finger puppet at the Saatchi gallery. Especially with the absorbent `Christ in a Glass` festering in the kitchen.

Although very amusing, these toys are indications of a strange reversal in the attitude to religious ritual. In some respects, to the faithful ,it could be sacrilegious, to make fun of or belittle those deities held by some in high esteem. Beware of judgement from on high. But beware there is another twist...

Those that hail science as the new religion, with the delicious proff. Brian Cox as the new science saviour, would need to examine the moral integrity behind many children's toys based on science research. Oh, thats different, those toys would be classed as educational.

Only So Much Matter...

2010-05-06T11:36:00.000-07:00

`Dead Dad`, Ron Mueck 1996-97

Rest in Peace William Bird , Died 1st May 2010. Aged 79.

Great Hermetic Jelly Fish!

2010-04-25T10:46:00.000-07:00

The `grow your own brain` photos I have uploaded on flikr reminded me of an article in the New Scientist magazine, from 2008. The amazing anatomically correct brain was crochet by Karen Norberg in 2006. Truly a master piece and a work of genius.

The picture of a jelly fish, a box jelly fish, is from 2008 as well. Dozens were washed up on the beach at Llanstefan . It looked like a tragic and massive failed invasion .For jelly fish films click

I haven`t look at them for years, they are quite sad.

The obvious visual similarities between the jelly fish and the brain are interesting. I constantly record instances of repetition and interconnection, which I find on a daily basis . There are infinite similarities found in the micro and macro circumstances of our universe. I am often reminded of the First line on the `Emerald Tablet` , a coded inscription that is used in Hermeticisim.

`As above below`...

The Universe is the same as God, God the same as man, man the same as the cell , the cell the same as the atom.

I have used the quote many times before , and now I know where it originates.

Chaos and Cake , Theory #1. Research Beginning.

2010-04-18T04:13:00.000-07:00

Cake

Empty

Random

`I say unto you a man must have chaos yet within him to be able to give birth to a dancing star: I say unto you ye have chaos yet within you.

Nietsche

Chaos umpire sits,

And by decision more embroils the fray

By which he reigns: next him high arbiter

Chance governs all.

Milton

Here in the UK the Sky's are swimming pool clear and cerulean blue. Empty of the invasive but incredible invention of the airplane, due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland. Inverse `Butterfly Effect` -ed into good weather! Amazing. No contrails and no new clouds, the skies are silent. (Actually, for the first time in days we have clouds today.)

No imports or exports either. Makes you think about how as a nation we cannot feed ourselves. We need the world. The British public nearly starved to death during the second world war. I like the idea of unity, positive and optimistic .

On the subject of chaotic probability, related to the weather only by locality and theories of interconnection (but that's good enough), I was on my way home, under those blue skies, from an afternoon shift with `Postman Pat`, at the Lyric Theatre, when I found a party.

It was International Record Store Day, and our most exquisite independent local hang out was having a bit of a celebration. Fantastic, music, dancing and cake! All the best.

I asked the fascinating search engine Wolfram/ Alpha` What is the probability of finding a party on the way home from work?` The computer said `Wolfram/Alpha isn`t sure how to compute an answer from your input`. Then gave me option to follow leads to probability or movies- `The way Home`. Chaos in action.

I am still crocheting the Invisible Blanket.

Buffalo Boys Goes Round the outside...

2010-04-08T12:14:00.000-07:00

Malcom Maclaren R.I.P or should I say` bollox, **** off mate`.

I grew up in South London. At 17 in 1977 I had just left school , and then... PUNK.

The man that invented the most influencial youth cult of all time. And some great fashion and music too.

Scientist and Artist and Pulsar

2010-04-07T14:18:00.000-07:00

Pulsar Hand Nebular

James Turrell at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I have sat in here. Wonderfull.

Pulsar Diagram

`Our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier...`

`Nothing is static, nothing is final...`

The prize winning scientist Jocelyn Bell was a brilliant student. In 1967 she was the first ever scientist to discover the fast, regular radiation emissions from pulsating electromagnetic stars, nicknamed by a journalist as Pulsars. Controversially,her university lecturer received the Nobel prize for the discovery.

Pulsars are amazing and charismatic bodies. Very small, planet sized and incredibly dense,

with enormous magnetic fields.

Pulsars occur one or two stages before a star could become a black hole at the end of its twinkling life. The pulses are caused by brief flashes of the radiation emitted from the Pulsars poles, dectected from the earth as it spins on its axis at incredible speeds.

Jocelyns faith as a Quaker is insically linked to her belief in the infinite nature of the universe, and her faith in the aspects of science that encourage understanding , rather that seeing it as a race for the truth`.

Another of my favorite artists is James Turrell. He to is a practicing Quaker. Quakerism is a faith , a religion without doctrine or Dogma, that teaches truth only in terms of self realisation and understanding .

I have been lucky enough to experience James Turrells work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and at an exhibition in London. He uses light as a medium to explore spirituality and entity. His work transcends the boundaries of form. It is pure and magnanimous. Full of the conviction of his faith.

Mass and The Pull of Anthropomorphic Gravity

2010-04-04T02:49:00.000-07:00

Anthony Gormley, Critical Mass.

Helen Frik, Higher Up Where to.

Anthony Gormley, Field for the British Isles

Helen Frik is a British born artist who has an installation at Chapter Arts Centre , Cardiff.

Part of the installation - titled `Higher up, Where to`, has been made by volunteers from the public (including me). The call was for weird and wonderful toys, and that is what she got. Absolutely fabulous ,wondrous, beautifulugly, loveliness.

Having missed the private view, we made the journey on Saturday night.When we walked through to the last room ,there was just us and the installation- THEM. Of course, we had interrupted their secret revelries.

Using a contemporary analogy, the characters gave off a post party `chill out` atmosphere. Collected in small relaxed and intimate (some of the extremely intimate) groups, there was in some case unbridled affection and unity. The next unchoreographed move for us humans, was to join the collective on the floor, for comment and conversation.

Whilst crawling in amongst my new the freaky friends, Anthony Gormleys `Field for the British Isles` came to mind. His work won the Turner prize in 1994. What an antitheses to his internal, still and controlled display of terracotta figures. The 40,000 figures in the `Fields` were made by many, many different people , but with stringent regulations about features and form.

I felt that Helen Frinks piece failed to communicated the artists original concept. Even the `Black Guardians` situated at the foot of the `Light` had conceded and sat down.

There was no collective ominous pull towards the light. Rather a placid and accepting camp of the uniqueness found in humanity. Here are pictures on flickr.

The comparisson between the two artists installations of human based form are an interesting illustration of a shift in cultural paradigm.

Equinox at the Gallery

2010-03-28T07:22:00.000-07:00

Saskia and her hand made trinkets.

Some of the staff

My crocheted cakes

More pictures of the Oriel Myrddin Garden Party here
I feel very fortunate to be able to work in the Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen. Its a lovely old building that used to be an art school, we sometimes get stories of antics from the towns older residents , about things that happened when they were art school students. We are also very lucky to have a super relationship with our regulars , who turn up for openings and workshops on a regular basis. Thank you!

To celebrate the "Reap and Sew" spring exhibition, the gallery had a garden party.

It was a great success, with tea cakes and bunting, things for sale and things to make. It was a pleasure to go to work.

Perspective Halts Infinity

2010-03-27T02:39:00.000-07:00

Deep new joy

This is a picture of french writer and philosopher (and of course obsesser, if there is such a word),

Geogre Perec. I am reading with mixed emotions, `Species of Spaces and other Pieces`. The book is full of lists , observations and comment. His style is unique, his attitude is expansive, in the most compact of instances. Most of it written with humour and delight in the every day. But as with all brilliance, there is a tinge of pathos and maudlin in the lonely, insular and obsessive. An intangible coldness seems to pervade his french magnanimity. A symptom of a tragic childhood, his writing is beautiful, but where is his joy?

`Since 1984, small planet no.2817 (1982UJ) has borne the name of George Perec`.

Above the picture of George Perec, is my new joy. My dear friend Bunwen ( really Sarah), bought me a very early birthday present, a glockenspiel. I have wanted one for as long as I can remember.

I am already quite adept at `plink- a -plonk meditative` style, which I find calming, but I`m not sure if thats a universal effect, and have got the vocal intro. to Gary Numans `Cars` off pat , even using 2 beaters. Need some sheet music now and I can begin rehearsing.

Inevitable Escallating to an Unknown Point.

2010-03-23T11:16:00.000-07:00

Topological Chair

Crochet Chaos

Crochet Graffitti

Spring equinox brought about some sad changes in my life. I feel uninspired by them, really not very spring like at all . But the weather does not help, there you are then- as they say in Wales.

I have long ogled the crochet Lorenz Manifold , made by Hinke Osinge, that is well documented on the Internet.

Lorenz, the mathematician that the piece is named after was the originator of Chaos Theory, and the Butterfly Effect.

Chaos theory is interesting. Nothing to do with a state of perpetual uncontrolled disorganisation. `They` have, as always, the obligatory equations to describe the instigation of ever expanding systems, (visually expressed as fractals), that describe chaotic states. But have no way of predicting accurately the exact outcome of the movement, how it began, or where it will end. There is no complete control or prediction of a chaotic state.

The weather was Lorenz special scientific area. He used chaos theory to describe weather systems , and applied them with some success to the arcane art of weather prediction. As a result we know what the weather is supposed to do. Or at least a probable outcome as a result of certain situations.

It made me think of the earth quake that `Quilt Architect` felt on the little island King Salmon. That earth quake, butterfly effect-ed off to Haiti a couple of weeks later, and showed us all just how chaotic weather systems can be. I wonder who flapped their crochet.

Salvation and Visibility

2010-03-14T11:01:00.000-07:00

Out and about in the West Wales countryside for a change. This time for a meeting at New Mill, Drefelin. I showed `Iota Island` at an exhibition at the mill , called `Rhod` last year. Dave Shepherd - (Image Salvage and Reclamation), was one of the other featured artists at the show. He too has revisited the mill, in fact it seems he never left! His installation has been there ever since, moved around in various forms, a bit like a conceptual squatter. I took some time to study the re-installed piece.

I found the immediacy of the piece quite striking. The new proximity of the materials animated the individuality of each `bin` and gave it all a sense of unity and purpose. The arrangement had elements of domesticity and urbanity, with a pensive, tense feeling.

Thinking- in relation to a piece I will be showing there later this year, it seemed definate and so visible.

Nature it seems, is the popular name

For milliards and milliards and milliards

Of particles playing their infinite game

Of billiards and billiards and billiards.

Piet Hein (1966)

Darker Dimensions

2010-03-11T11:44:00.001-08:00

Here is a link to` Bird In The House` blog, that's her above, my good friend Kathryn Campbell.

She is a special talent with a vision that magically transcends cultural boundaries , using a lightness of touch over an uneasy darkness in spirit. Her work is loaded with symbolism referencing her own domestic past, tangled with many world religions and belief systems. Kathryn's work silently emits her own banshee howl. Its wonderful stuff of secrets and spells.

We went to the opening of her show in a lovely retro shop come exhibition space called `Milkwood Gallery`, in the Roath area of Cardiff. Of course, I forgot my camera, so this one picture was taken on Kath's own camera. There are more pictures on Kathryn's own blog. Just follow the link above.

While we were there , I was given the T.Rex album by one of the gallery owners. What a top generous present. Many thanks ! Marc Bolan was the singer and front man of T.Rex, he was a first pop idol love. I lived a mile down the road , in London ,from the tree where he was killed in 1977. I still visit the place every time I`m in London . It`s an official memorial site now, filled with tributes and fan paraphernalia.

Auricula Hysteria

2010-03-08T01:12:00.000-08:00

The Old Auricula Theatre, or what was.

Auricula or Primula

The Auricula Theatre at Calke Abbey.

Click for three dimensional Mandelbrot fractals called Mandelbulb, here. (Thanks to Sam Knight for the link)

On a research and reconnaissance mission with Fibre Art Wales, at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales, we were taken to the Walled Garden. There we were shown the site that once was the old Auricula Theatre.

Apparently, in olden days when ladies of a gentler disposition were taken with a fit of the vapours or shocked by the appearance of an untoward table leg, they were directed to sit and contemplate the rows of Primula (Auricula) flowers in the Auricula Theatre to calm and steady ones nerves.

The flowers have striking, bold and velvety colours , which appear in concentric rings around each flower head which is made of a multiple of blooms. They appear to me to be quite fractal in design, and perhaps en masse quite hypnotic . They are reported to have been of a calming nature to the ladies of those times.

I was amused and inspired by the tale of flowers comforting the nervy. It also brought to mind the whole language of flowers fashion which was extremely popular in Victorian times.

But, even more interesting is the Pythagorean mathematical healing properties of the repetition and colour in nature.

Apply The Method of the Theoretical Scientist.

2010-02-28T04:41:00.000-08:00

`Imagination is more important that knowledge. For knowledge is is limited to all we know now and understand, while imagination embraces he entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.`

Albert Einstein

Saturday was the opening of the Pembrokeshire open at the Torch Theatre Milford Haven.
I was lucky enough to have the Iota chosen as part of the show. It took two days to install., Many millions of billions of thanks to Jake , for dropping everything at a moments notice to help with installation. His calm and logical systems over rode my moments of relatively controlled hysteria and we got most of it done on the first day. See his beautiful photos and some of mine on flickr here
I find peoples reactions interesting when confronted with an installation in the same vicinity as more traditional two and three dimensional work. Not only are they mystified by the appearance of the piece, but by the science theory behind it. Dan Shaw, the Torch Theatre manager looked up and said...`it`s like being in the forest.` Fabulous. I hope there will be a review of the show on the web site soon.

Interesting to see the piece in a urban environment. The area was light and lit, with natural light wells, all of which interact with the piece. Its a bit of a shame about what the staples have done to the gallery walls, but a bit of filler will see it right after the event! Steep parabolic trajectory on that learning curve.

HEY... the Large Hadron Collider was switched back on early this morning. HURRAH!

Mechanistic Philosophy

2010-02-22T10:23:00.000-08:00

Search for the windmills in the
Carmarthenshire quilt.

Anthony Gormley, Angle (!) of the North.

Seized windmill with no physical power.

Instant disobedience.

I make the journey from Carmarthen to Cardigan most weeks and have become accustommed to the visuals. It is a vicious, undulating menace of a back road , that has claimed one car from me already, so I try and pay attention to the technical matters in hand. Recently, the forestry commission have done a bit of subtle land scapeing (NOT!) and left a view , that was hidden before. The no entry bilingual sign rattled the purile anarchist tendancies in me, and I went to investigate. I have no recollection of the view before, or when the tree harvest took place, but now it is, to quote Neil Armstrong...`beautiful desolation.`

You can now see the towering wind turbines way across the valley. It wasn`t until I had taken the photo and arrived home I saw how small they were in the picture.
A trick of renaissance perspective indeed. In real time they are towering and majestic, and make a most awesome whooshing. Elemental Angels on a hill top. One of the hiddeous bends on the journey, passes under the swooping shadow of an `..umbrageous limb...` (Guy Wetmore Carryl.) A symbol of passage and protection.

Ofcourse, I write this as a complete town dweller that doesn`t live near them. Others have different views.

Reductions in Emergence

2010-02-14T09:16:00.000-08:00

Heart in the Cosmos

Heart on a sleeve

Commercial appeasement

The starry, romantic cardiac annomily is the result of two colliding galaxies. It happens in all shapes and sizes!

Happy Valentines.

Emergence is the philosophical debate that covers the old axiom that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One interpretation of this is, that there is something else apart from the constituants of an entity. That in unity, entirety becomes a greater force than a collection. It is a popular and enduring philosophical and scientific debate. I find it fascinating and inspirational.

Humans as individuals are complicated and unique assemblages. (Stating the bleedin` obvious!)

Joined in force as a race there is something more than atoms and molecules. More than physical, more than can be explained by equation and reasoning.

Phenomenological and emergent concepts like interconnection and unity are important issues that inform my practice. The philosphical opposite is reductionism. Here is a link to a lecture on the Royal Society web site, that I really enjoyed.

The sympoisum on artistic collaborations I attended this week provided emergent food for thought. One lecturer suggested that the current increaseing trend for collaboration in the art world, is a form of direct response to the decrease of unity through direct political action, that requires mass physical presence. There is a vast increase in the trend for internet networking, and a massive increase in social grouping and political activism through internet sites. Previously, membership to a specific group or party required attendance and physical affilliation, sometimes even a physical image or uniform. This provided identity, support and companionship. It is interesting to watch the enthusiasm with which the public will exersize the right to vote commercially through the household media, but struggle with the politcal apathy rife in the U.K. at this time. Even groups such as the womens institue have suffered with membership numbers. As a race we need communication and contact with each other, thats not news. What is interesting is the manifestation of various substitutes, which attempt to compensate for physical alienation.

Parahelic Car Arc

2010-02-07T04:21:00.000-08:00

The Nuremberg happening of 1561, depicted by Hans Glaser in a woodcut from 1566.

...and that rare phenomenon

The iridule- when beautiful and strange,

In a bright sky above a mountain range

one opal cloudlet in an oval form

reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm...

Vladimir Nabakov, Pale Fire.

I did not take this photo but I wish I had. Driving back through south west Wales, a bit the worst for wear on Saturday morning, Jake pointed out something in the sky I have never seen before. A sundog. This photograph is as near to its appearance as I could find. These rare and beautiful light phenomenons are goodly and fine omens and considered very lucky. Thank you for that!

The light refracted from the sun is projected in an arc onto near by low lying cirrus type clouds.I only caught a few glimpses because I was driving at the time, but this is what it looked like. The arc of a parahelion (scienctific name), always 22 degrees from the horizon can be seen all year round, but shines from a low sun.

I am inspired.

Critical Crocheted Chandrasekhar Limits

2010-01-31T10:30:00.000-08:00

Two crochet adepts

Mystery picture

Loop- loop-loop, 1-2-3-, loop-loop-loop, 1-2-3-, loop-loop-loop, 1-2-3-, loop-loop-loop, 1-2-3-
The crochet goes on and on and on. I have made these two figures for a call for work from Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. An artist called Helen Frik is making an installation from toys, called `Difficult` and has called for assistance from the public. Glad to be of service. It is satisfying to be able to finish somthing for a specific purpose.

As`The Invisible Blanket`increases, I find I am consuming enough calorific mass to reach the required size of eight plus solar masses, and am indeed fast approaching my own version of the Chandrasekhar limit.

At a point in its long and bright life a small star will burn to a white dwarf, then a red dwarf and then old and tierd, depleated of fuel, fade gently away. It is not this simple , but I understand this much.

A bigger star, thats the required eight solar masses plus, will reach a point in the fusion of heavier elements at its core, where the density of the cores mass reaches the Chandrasekhar Limit. The gargantuan heavy star, reacts with the force of gravity around it, and becomes a huge supernova explosion. The collapsed and condensed remains of the star will either spend the rest of its life as an incredibly tiny and dense neutron star, or if the collapsing star matter is dense enough to defy the pull of gravity, continue to collapse inwards and become a singularity black hole. My favorite. Super massive blackness here I come. Ah, but it is still January, soon be spring.

Wheres My Crochet Gone?

2010-01-24T06:39:00.000-08:00

Alberich puts on the Tarnhelm (hat of invisibility) ,and dissappears.
Illustration by Arthur Rackham.

The Shadow of an Invisible Blanket

More pictures on flickr

Invisible clothing vid here

More invisible research shows that most ancient culltures had a legendary garment or headwear that renders the user invisible. Greek mythology tells of a cap used by Hades, and a version of a tale where Persius is given a similar cap by Athene.

What are the origins of mysterious sartorial invisibility? Where did this legend begin? I will investigate austrolasian, asian and african stories, older cultures may hold a clue.

The Welsh Mabinogion tells of Caswallanwn. He donned a cloak of invisibility and murdered Caradog ap Bran, one of the seven chieftans left to look after `Blighty` whilst the king was off in Ireland. I have been reading the Lady Charlotte Guest translation, but was ammused by William Owen Pughe (1795), who reffers to the Mabinogion as ` juvenille ammusements, being Welsh romances.`

The development of a modern equivalent is as thrilling as it is a little worrying. (We don`t all abide by `Star Fleet regulations)`. It adds a prophetic touch to the tales of old though.

R.I.P. Jean Simmonds. (Sarah Browne in Guys and Dolls).

Gold Star Award

2010-01-14T13:28:00.000-08:00

Dre Wapenaar dwellings

Thank you to the beautiful , intelligent and talented Quilt Architect for a Gold Star Blog Award. I shall in turn be passing it on. What a fabulous gift.

Thank you also for an amazing link.

The link takes you to the web site of Dre Wapenaar, a dutch designer of three dimensional sculpture to use as dwellings.

Developeing with a step to the left from Mario Merz and the fine art igloo , Dre Waapenaar has moved from mathematical and geometric sculpture, to investigate the practicle functionality of alternative `tent` spaces. These new works consider the relationships of the people that will use the spaces with the environment, and with each other.

I love the drop shaped tree tents. Hmmm. A little planning needed, and a larger crochet hook.

Artist Rime Time.

2010-01-13T09:41:00.000-08:00

View the films here
On the subject of things frozen, some times collaborator and fellow artist Jacob Whittaker, made two frozen short films last year. Both organic and etherial , they create perfect visual methaphors for the micro and macro entity of our universe. Illustrating how things most minute appear to exist in replica thousands or millions of times larger. Nebulous, eerie and expansive. I would love to see them on huge screens , installed somewhere with a vast interior.
I saw a film installation in a magazine, with 2 large screens of equal surface area but one was oblong and one square. The room was an old fashioned ballroom with cornice and coving. Elegant and ideal. Maybe the room tempreture should be subtley low as well.
The two `Rime no Reason` films are part of a collection of works that examine the hidden intrinsic beauty of immediate surroundings. With individual sound tracks, they stand in a genre that spans between art film and music video, with hints of intense documentry. This is where, in my opinion Jakes worked has unique strength.The link will take you to flickr, where in turn there will be a link to the films and others like it on you tube.

Gelid Squeels!

2010-01-12T08:58:00.000-08:00

Snow on the roof tops.

Snowy Hair, Mario Merz.
As the snow continues to cause chaos on our badly equipped little Island, I am snugly cwtched* up in Crows Nest Towers (the new top floor flat), thinking icy thoughts in the warmest possible way. Bird in the house, gave a mention to one of the greatest artists, Mario Merz. I wrote about his piece, `Tavola a Spirale`, in my dissertation, and have been fortunate enough to see pieces of his work in galleries all over Europe.

A man with Pythagorian concepts , Einsteinian hair and an legendary temper, Mario Merz beautiful and unque work explores divisions and groups. His concerns with the changes in modern and post modern society, and political issues are expressed in his work by the investigation of natural orders and the use of numerical systems. As one of his recurrent forms, he uses the igloo, to visually describe a basic increment of increase, and the shape it naturally forms when applied materially.

I lived for a while in 1992-93, in a make shift dwelling called a bender. This is the same dome shape as a igloo, but made from woven hazel or willow poles and covered with tarpaulin. It was winter at the time , but inside the bender was kept warm with a wood burner. Its ergonomic shape withstood all the wind and rain fall that a Welsh hill side could lash out . It was a very earthy and spiritual experience to live so near to the ground. The definition of inside and out side becoming blurred as one entwined with the other in a viscous layer of mud. Luckilly I have no recollection of snow that year.

Complete the chill-o-rific theme while listening to a C.D. of a band called Paavoharju. They are from iceland, and its called Laulu Laakson Kukista, which means `a song about flowers of the valley`. It`s very evocative of their native lands , with a contemporary interpretation of traditional sounds and instruments. Love it.

Meteo-Measurement

2010-01-06T10:23:00.000-08:00

Jim Ospensen.

From a recent drawing

Photo of a real snow flake by Karla Jean Booth. How innocent and lovely is this divine little thing?

Branches in a blizzard

More photos on flickr
There is no denying it has been snowing in south west Wales.
I am not over excited by the prospect of frozen toes and falling over on the inevitable slush and ice, produced as a by product in a small town like Carmarthen. I do not like the cold.

Yesterday , despite intermittent blizzard conditions my dear friends Jake and Sam helped me to move to a delightful, modern and warm flat . It is only upstairs from where I was, but the stairs are outside and metal. We did it . Thanks soooo much ! Must say that Kathryn helped the day before in the cold and dark. Thank you to you to! I am inspired by my new abode.

Snow flakes are a fascinating organic example of Koch`s triangle. , explaining the infinte nature of the perimeter of any object through the behaviour of fractal. Just like the `How long is a piece of string?` question.

Actually, the thought of a snowflake with a never ending edge, which by definition would have an infinitely huge interior, is my idea of a icy nightmare. Brrrrrr.

Lunar, Luna, Loon.

2010-01-03T02:12:00.000-08:00

Small World on the streets

Toasting a special event.

Click here to listen to Ella Fitzgerald sing Blue Moon.

The Blue Moon on new years eve couldn`t have been a more welcome and auspicious occaision . It can only mean good and possitive things. A bigger, brighter, fuller and more eventful 2010.

We toasted the moon and the new year with an appropriately named cocktail.

The night after, I was out as Jakes assistant , filming the splendid Small World Theatre as they had a public lantern parade through the town of Cardigan , West Wales. We headed down to the river, and then floated the pretty paper lights off downstream. Despite the snow, people turned out, sung and had a lovely time. There will probably be a film to see on You tube, so keep your eyes open.

The people that run small world Bill and Ann are fantastic people. They have been all over the world communicating and sharing with their tallents. They bring together people in the area, and put on the most entertaining theatrical events. Good luck to them for the new year.

Movement Caused by Rational Numbers

2009-12-29T09:56:00.000-08:00

More photos on flickr

`Nous sommes tous de lopins et d`une contexture si informe et diverse, que chaque piece, chaque momant, faict son jeu. Et se trouve autant de difference de nous a nous mesmes, que de nous a autruy`.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit , each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

Michel de Montaigne.

These toys are used by Claire, a lovely lady. She has the constant flow and fluidity of movement that comes with dance training. When visiting ,we were introduced to these toys that are used to communicate with children in her therapy practice. I still have a functional and enjoyable relationship with all sorts of toys, some as props for my practice and some of a purely whimsical nature. As soon as the toys emerged from the tin where they lived, I was enchanted. The world should play more .

Perhaps every one is every thing.

Cada um de nos e varidos, e muintos, e uma prolixidade de si mesmos. Por isso aquele que despreza o ambiente nao e o mesmo que dele se alegra ou padece. Na vasta colonia do nosso ser ha gente de muitas especies, pesando e sentindo diferentemente.

Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who distains his surroundingsis not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

Fernando Pessoa.

Solstice ,The Moon and a Dog.

2009-12-20T12:31:00.000-08:00

Meg, alias Cheesely

From the front of the CD

In my workroom studio

All wrapped up.

I have been really busy and happy recently. The tree is surrounded in presents, waiting for the big event. I love Christmas, any excuse for a party. I have no belief in any organised religion, trying not to think of life in concepts of right or wrong. It is something I try to express in my work, an expansive evenness. Ultimately expressed as an isotropic universe.

Although, most unlike the privileged and subordanate thinking of Platonic philosophy that has informed so much of our Western thinking.

But any festival that lights up the long cold Welsh /British winter has got to be celebated long and hard.

It is also the time of the winter solstice. A celebration of the longest night of the year. After Chanuka and before Christmas. This year for solsitce my dear friends Helen and Pete have given me an amazing C.D. by a composer called `Moondog`. I have only heard one other C.D of his work and am impressed. A unique and complicated characture, who wrote amoungst many other works, a nine hour piece called `Cosmos`. Scored for one thousand musicians and singers, it has yet to be heard. Sounds like a fabulous idea, a work of infinite genius. Any one out there need something to do? Imagine the vastness and the volume.

The stunning Lab crossed retriever in the top picture, is Meg. (Who is knick- named Cheesely because she shows all her teeth in a huge cheesey grin when she see you.) She is an old dogfriend of mine, and came to visit for the day during the week. Sadly, Cheesely is really ill. It was a lovely day, but, even though we will have to say goodbye to her, shes doing really well at the moment. Even managed to chase a cat.

Dog love, Moondog ,dog friends.

Happy festive season to you all .

Ascetic Observances and Infinite Points

2009-12-13T06:29:00.000-08:00

I love the woven mathematics involved in the seat of this peacock chair. Exactly the same principle of the spirograph toy I love to use in diagramatical drawings. A definition of the infinite , is to examine any point on a parabolic curve (made from straight lines), and find that there is no curve, only a sucssesion of straight lines that decrease in length. The same principle as the` how long is a piece of string `conundrum.

Infinite seating.

I Heard a programme on the radio, about Pythagoras this week. Now , there was a thinker . Or was there? There is no definite proof he ever existed. Supposedly born around 570 B.C., he left no mark or written word. But, his attributed teachings influenced Plato to such an extent as to be the foundation of all Western philosophy.

Famous for his geometric genius and for his teachings of sacred geometry I was delighted to learn about the records of a man who was a mathemetitian , scientist and mystic, but had no notion of the three being seperate. The men and women that joined the cult formed around his teachings believed that geometry , numbers, ratios, harmonics and proportions were the same thing as music, light and cosmology. That religion and science are inseperable.

He was perhaps, the first philosopher to associate music with mathematics, as he taught of the transference of musical notes into mathematical equation, and through the ` harmony of the spheres`, showed how the universe produces a symphony.

Now, I realise where Holst got his inspiration from.

Here is a link to other pictures on Flickr.

Uncommon Experiments in Communication

2009-12-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

Inspired by a workshop at the Oriel Myrddin gallery a couple of weeks ago, I have been drawing in home made sketch books. These are photos of two of the results. There are some photographs of details on Flickr.

I attended another workshop at the gallery on Saturday. This was a whole different kettle of fish. It was a short story writing exercise, and a very new creative discipline for me.

I enjoy words. It is an essential part of my practice to play with vocabulary. The language of science is an inspiation to me . But finding your own language from another source of inspiration was a real challenge.

The workshop was led by writer Dan Anthony, who adapted a very popular teen series on the television called `Tracey Beaker `. His love of books and the language in them was infectious, and I enjoyed the pasages he read to us.It was fun to analyise the impressions the exerts made, we were encouraged to give our own critique.

I struggled with composing my own story. I felt more exposed by my own ideas, than in any other creative media I have tried. It was even more complicated than painting! I was a little surprised at the result of my writing, and a little embarassed. It was extremely interesting to be so far out of my own comfort zone. Having said that it was a most enjoyable day, and we celebrated our fiction debuts with mince pies and mulled wine in the gallery shop afterwards. But, it took me ages to be able to speak again. How strange.

Lucky Number Thirteen.

2009-12-04T11:08:00.000-08:00

I have mentioned that I am member number thirteen of Fibre Art Wales. They are a most pro-active and energetic bunch of creative lovelies. The newest show I am involved with is``Fibre Voices`, at the Ceredigion musuem, Aberystwyth (thats Aber- ist- with, with as in pith).

I like being in a group. I am quite gregarious, communication and participation are research for my practice. It`s all about interconnection.The standard of work from the other members is fantastic and inspirational.

I am truely `made up` to be accepted as this years new recrute. ` Made up`, more London slang? You can take the girl out of London, But you can`t take London out of the girl. I have just been down to the Big Smoke for a family visit as well. Pictures, as usual on Flickr. A visit to see my nephews always injects colour and energy into my life.

Back to the show at the museum. It is beautifully hung with an escalating narrative in the relationship between each piece. The room is light, even on a rainy December afternoon, and friendly. I arrived a little late for the talk on December 4th, but was just in time to be able to talk about my own piece.

Being a new member,this was a great opportunity to look at some of the other members practices. I had to borrow Jakes camera to take some pictures, as I forgot mine. I will post the rest of the photos on Flickr when I retreive them.

Thanks to all concerned, especially Alison, for all her hard work.

While speaking about`The fabric of the Universe`, I refered to the Issac Newton quote ` ... standing on the shoulders of giants...` applying it to the history of textile. From the discovery of natural fibres for binding, the industrial and creative history of the human use of textile is dramatic and magical, steeped in legend, suffering and achievement.

Germaine Greer recently reffered to aspects of decorative textile as `heroic pointlessness...`in an article from the guardian newspaper. Stupid Moo. Creativity is not about what appears to be superficial, or on the surface, physically or mentally. Its a spiritual journey, which is a complicated pattern of deconstruction and assembly. But, I expect she knows that , Greer always tries to be a bit contraversial.

Standard Model Insomnia

2009-12-02T11:14:00.000-08:00

Ceiling in the Camden Centre, London

Large Hadron Collider ,Cern

Celing St. Pancras Station.London.

I see geometry and it sees me.
I wonder how many other poor (tierd) soles lie awake at night and consider the standard model. The current full moon in Cancer, keeps me awake with deep thoughts and a strange stomach. That reminds me of the Joni Mitchell song that begins

`Born with the moon in Cancer,

Choose her a name that she`ll answer to...`

I am not a follower of the Zodiac, but I believe in everything.

Speculating in the wee small hours, If the Hadron collider does its stuff , the missing gaps in the currently accepted table of sub atomic particles will be completed . First ,hopefully with observations of evidence to support super symetry theory. Then perhaps a place for dark matter, Higgs energy and the Higgs boson. Then maybe, maybe, maybe, String Theory... huzzah huzzah my favorite. Real Science crochet. If not then what.

The search must go on, for an explanation, for a description, for reasons. You can search for science or for God, you will find what you are looking for. When you decide you have found it , I suppose. Otherwise, we must consider the infinite nature of all things.

How long is a piece of string?

The Visible Condition

2009-12-01T08:18:00.000-08:00

Soon to be the man.

Mind my Nails

Tiffany Oben is the only person I know who spent an hour on the empty plinth in Trafalgar square in London. As part of the Anthony Gormley project` One and Other`, Tiff, went up as a woman and came down a man. An Initiation right in a London stylee. A Cold and exposeive way of investigating the subjectivity of the outward apperance of gender.

Not having anything to do with the human condition running through in my head most of the time, it took a bit of explanation and disscussion to understand what was going on and why. I`m still not one hundred per cent. But I admire her intellegence and her courage in taking a BA on, as well as being a mother to three and coping admirably with her, er... unique partner(!)

Round at Laura, (her sister in laws) home in the woods , we helped out with another part of her brief. To find volunteers and ask them to suggest to gender opposites, from which she can transform from one to the other. The volounteer had to dress and undress Tiff without assistance or objection from the model. Lauras genius challenged Tiff with two` towny chavs `.

The evening was chav-tastic fun. I`m still not convinsed by the `subjectivity of gender` thing. It is a huge topic. But the execution of this project is immaculte, original and engaging.

Tiff emerges as a perfect blank canvas for characture examination, with RADA standard acting abilities. Good luck to her with the rest of the brief. I am trying to think of a couple of lightly suspects for another event.

.Gravitational Waves Disturbing Entangled Pairs

2009-11-23T01:49:00.000-08:00

Spool of thread about one foot tall.

More observartions of line and fluidity.

The local footie pitch in Abergwilli flooded out. Eight feet by twenty four feet is the official size of the football goal. Covered in a material that obviously, judgeing by the state of the pitch , cannot contain its liquid content. Water polo? Too cold to swim.

The other photos are of work in progress on the `Invisible Cover/ Quilt/ Blanket`. I haven`t decided on a title yet. Inspired by sciences discovery of the meta-material, made of nano fibres that can bend the path of photons, rendering solid matter in its path invisible.

So far, I read they can only opperate on one frequency of electromagnetism at a time. (One colour). But its the beginning of something scientificly significant. Hopefully, so will the crochet! But the nylon overlocking thread the piece is made from is so fine, I am using a no. 4 hook, but it is taking its time to grow. More pictures on Flickr.

I am working in a traditional blanket pattern, three trebles in a two chain gap. I lost the end of the row quite early on, so continued in a spiral. This has given it an undulating surface with fluid qualities and an etherial and airy quality.

Crochet on.

An Infinite Length of Anything

2009-11-19T09:45:00.000-08:00

I love the way these two images oscilate when you gently nudge the page up and down. The `op art` illusion style of Bridget Riley, verses the dubious nature of the scientific certainty.

I`m not entirley sure what it is that this blog entry is trying to deduce. I have a head full of thoughts, that haven`t really sorted themselves out into related matter yet. M`be this , writing the blog ,will help.

I have had some very interesting input this week from re- watching television replayed on the i-player.

Doctor Who, for the first time subverted the human laws of causality, and changed the line of time.

He becomes demented with the ostrasized state that his uniqueness dictates and flips out, changeing the events already written by history. In this episode, humans contaminated by a martian water infection, become overtaken and abundant with flowing leathal water.

Water in its liquid form, takes the shape of its container, in this case humans. But when water overtakes the constraints of this container and requires no boundaries to define its existance, there is no end to the infinite deluge.

Time, without constraint, is also dimensionless and infinite.

Another exellent program, ( Horizon BBC2 18th November), enigmatically titled `How Long Is a Piece of String?` also deduced that the ultimate measurent of any thing in the most extreme circumstances, is infinite.

So, I am thinking about ; lines, rules or constraints, boundaries or lack of them, about the singular nature of the infinite, about theories of interconnection.

`I chatter, chatter as I flow to join the brimming river,

for men may come and men may go,

but I go on forever`.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1881.

`When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come`.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Between the blogs message.

2009-11-13T10:05:00.000-08:00

Quiltarchtect, Bird-in-the-House, Bethel of Bethania, Shibori Girl: Your blogs are spiritual inspiration to my soul. If it wasn`t for the internet how would we all keep such elivated company? Thank you X

Magritte, or is it?

2009-11-11T11:27:00.000-08:00

Hey, lookie here, its Magritte, the Belgian surrealist! Or is it?
No reflection ? I don`t recall Magritte ever being accused of Vampirism. What could be the cause ?Perhaps he was travelling at the speed of light towards a mirror.
`c` is the speed of light, the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. Humans receive information as effect, according to the laws of causality, dictated by linear time.
At the speed of light information would be sent and received at the same time, eradicating the causal relationship between the mirrors reflection and its reception. No need for blood sucking then.
Light travels along the curve of space time. The faster light travels the lesser the curve, until at `c`
there is no distance between its emission and reception. No information to reflect. Hypothetical, I think, because nothing can travel at the speed of light . But invisible all the same.

Culinary Crochet across the Cosmos

2009-11-11T03:17:00.000-08:00

Mandarine Fancy. Really gacky.

I have seen a lot of crocheted cakes in pictures, and in my sister in laws beautiful kitchen. But, rarely so tasteless (!) and gaudy as these offerings. It was an unusual pleasure to finish something so quickley. The two pieces of science crochet I am working on now are at a very uninteresting stage of being medium large, extremely repetitive and not inspiring. So these lovelies are light crochet relief .

I have found bloging the non event of things growing slowly quite difficult. Maybe its time for some strange interim pictures for the records. I may have to get help.

I am a cake fan. That is true. I love cake. But, there are on average 120 calories in a slice of cake, and that is the same as a glass of wine. One whole cake, say Victoria sponge with jam filling, or a Battenburg slab, is the equivalent calories to one bottle of wine! I say with equal measures of pride and shame I have consumed them both, and on the rarest of occasions together.

One last John Cale quote because I have finished the book now. This is from right near the end,

`Loops are what people are interested in now a days...but what I like about looping is not what everybody else likes...`

I think I know what you mean, John.

Cosmos and Tapestry

2009-11-06T02:49:00.000-08:00

John Cale was chosen to represent Wales at the Venice Biannale this year.
These photos were snapped at a forum and discussion with the artist at the Ammanford Miners Theatre, before the openning of the biannale, and half way through the creation of his piece.

He is a charismatic man.

Post art world fuss , I am reading `What`s Welsh for Zen`, his autobiography. It is a compelling read, with untold big names and excessive rock and roll life style. He has a stroke of genius about him, with more than a dash of the self obsessed eye of a whirlwind.
The artwork by Dave Mckean, is fantasticly gothic and brooding, very suitable. I am a great admirer of his work in Gaimans ` Sandman` graphic novels.

One quote that struck me, is when talking post collaboration with Brian Eno, and trying to work with Lou Reed again,

`Collaboration is like stealing ideas from the Cosmos`.

For sure , working with a collaborator can be truely inspiring. Some ideas just appear from the ether, and become , without you even realising what it is you both are creating.

John Cale also used some surprising textile metaphor , at the beginning of a performance on a 1982 Later with Jules Holland.

He refers to ...`a change of texture`... and `a different tapestry`...

Small area of nebulosity

2009-11-02T10:18:00.000-08:00

Artists impression of the accretion disc, (looking it up as we speak), around a Black Hole.

`How It Is`, Miroslaw Balka currently at the Tate modern

Mysterious apparition on all hallows eve, with its own companion star.

Apart from discovering the fact that it is (fan fare...) National Sausage week, the most exciting thing that has happened to me today, is to find that they have installed a Black Hole into the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London.

It`s huge and lined with a special light absorbing fabric, It has the potential to be a moment of spiritual epiphany for the brave who enter. Unfortunatley, one reporter found it to be full of phillistines with cameras and mobile phones, defeating the `hole `object (ha ha ?).

The artist crypticly says its about` everything and nothing`... which brings me to a fever pitch of excitment. Theories of interconnection , conjour not only collective concious memories of the darkest spaces of human misery that constantly reappear in the history of our people, but multiply within the entity to show that there is release in the relative oblivion of something to vast to comprehend. Would you find comfort inside , or do our inhetent insecurities and fear pervade all other sensory experience.

To see the Black Hole of Carmarthen click here. There are lots of photos of it on my web site and through my photo stream on flickr.

Ya doodle ay aaaayyyeee...

2009-10-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

Found a link to a free down load for Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters Yodelin Ghost
Get ready for a Jazzy Hallow`een! :D

Deep Simplicity.

2009-10-27T12:13:00.000-07:00

There is something pensive about this picture. High in the sky buffeted by the breeze , but trapped with string invisible to the eye. Triumphant to be up there, but trapped even so. They appear to be discussing the problem with each other.

So, consider the difference between invisible, illusion and dissapearence. Martin Creed, artist and creator of the `Lights going on and off` winner of the Turner prize in 2001 (again thinking how to express nothing), said

`Without the viewer there is nothing`.

I think Schrodinger and his cat would like to talk to you about this. For bad physics Schrodinger jokes.

I am listening to the radio whilst writing this , and I wish there was a clip of what I have just heard, on `you tube` to paste here.

It was Bing Crosby and the Andrews sisters singing...

(Yodel), Ya doodle I aaaayyyyy, ya doodle I aaayyyyy.

Theres a yodel in the air, but there ain`t nobody there...

It must be a ghost, a yodelin` ghost.

(You can apparently down load an MP3, wish I knew how.)

Now thats invisible.

One last thing, I heard the best quote from Alan de Bouton,

`The thing we waste most of is out lives`.

Drawn in, Metered Out.

2009-10-24T12:17:00.000-07:00

What a wonderful day.

Today was the annual Big Draw event at the Oriel Myrddin gallery in Carmarthen, where I sometimes work. The education officer at the gallery spent ages cutting and prepareing card and paper in various sizes, for a book making workshop. It was really well attended. Kids, adults and even teenagers (!) made sketch books in all sizes with such quirkey and original designs.

I was helping out, but ofcourse, was instantly sucked into a vortex of cutting and glueing. Drawing is a great leveller, and totally consuming. Each person in a creative bubble. Every one that came to the event enjoyed every minute. Thank you all.

Although I have been crocheting since I was nine, I started to crochet as part of my degree, to give a third dimension to diagrams and line drawings . I needed something that would grow in a similar way to a drawing, but with form and substance. Taking the line from the page and substituting the pencil for a hook , I could begin to explore interactive aspects of mark making, and give physical depth to repitition and pattern.

Through out world history , there are myths and legends that use line as a metaphor for lifes duration. Astral travellers speak of a silver thread and a golden bowl. Gwenivere woven magic into the scabbard of Arthurs sword `Excalibur` as protection, and Greek mythology has heroines like Penelope and Arachne, who wove the threads of time into fabrics that dictated their destinies. My favorite are the three fates, Clothio who spins the line , Lachesis who measures, and Atropos who finally cuts the length.

Their line in our hands.

Multiple Connections in Spacetime

2009-10-14T00:44:00.000-07:00

Artists in a Wormhole

Another artists impression of a wormhole

`Science is seeing what everyone has seen, but no one has thought`.

Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian bio-chemist who isolated vitamin c. So, I think is art.

Tactile Wormhole Bosch.

2009-10-11T08:52:00.000-07:00

More images of the `Wormhole` at Tactilebosch here. The piece was originally devised as part of the `Loopholes` exhibition Jake and I did earlier on this year. We were given an alcove space to use at the `Auxesis` show at Tactilebosch, a gallery in Llandaff, Cardiff . More info about the gallery and the show here

The gallery is run on what appears to be a friendly and chaotic, ad hoc basis. But don`t be fooled, the show was well organised.

The artists are given complete control of installing their own work, so we spent some time blacking out the space that was once part of a huge victorian industrial laundry, and turning it into a dark shrine for the projection. I`m glad Jake is better at ladders than me. We were delighted with the outcome of the installation, I overheard one of the crowd mutter,`Awesome...` Whoever you were thankyou.

Meet Me on the Anti-Horizon

2009-10-09T07:49:00.000-07:00

Tactile White Hole

Detail

Exit from the White Hole

`Auxesis` is the name of three shows being held at `Tactilebosch`, Landaff, Cardiff. We were setting up the `Wormhole` installation to be part of the opening show on Saturday 10th October. Typically I forgot the relevent DVD , but found beautiful and strong results by experimenting with another DVD left in the player. That sent me off into a whirl of white hole research.

Research informs me that there is an hypothetical entity that has a valid solution within the theory of general relativity, named by the late great physicist John Wheeler a`Wormhole`. Otherwise known as the Einstein -Rosen bridge. Fundamental to intra-universal travel this topological feature theoreticly connects a `black hole` from the relevent moment in space time to a feature known as a `white hole` in another area of space time in the same universe. Because humans live with the effects of causality and linear time, and space time does not, wormholes hypotheticly exist contrary to the second law of thermodynamics. On discovering the formation of a Wormhole,a space traveller would be hindered by the instantaneous dissapation of the passage , leaving him or her confronted with the singularity at the centre of the black hole that he or she had entered , and ofcourse no way out.

I love Cosmology.

Multiscale Celestial Patterning

2009-10-09T06:50:00.001-07:00

It is reported in certain communities that `Red sky in the morning, Shepherds warning.` For us early bird arty types, red sky in the morning is just beautiful. A dramatic sky is dynamic and powerful.

sing here

Doesn`t matter what language or creed or race, colour of the day today is SUNRISE. Goooooood morning.

PS. That`s every morning.

Cultivated Meditation

2009-10-01T02:27:00.000-07:00

Portrate Panorama.

Over 300 `Pods`

I love the Panarama facilcity on my camera. It gives not just an extended width or height , but that elegant curve to the images. The lower picture is of `Event Horizon`, an installation at the Rhondda Heritage park, up in the valleys of mid Wales. It`s a beautiful light gallery at the top of the visitors centre.

This is my first exhibition with the group `Fibre Art Wales`. Its good to be part of a group, isolation doesn`t occur naturally, everything is part of something. Humans are inclined to be a social and gregarious group. Although, there are the loan wolves to every pack , we generally need company. I find inspiration comes particularly from interaction. I am very rarely struck by `idea lightening` in solitude. The broader the parameters of my research, the more confident I become in the theories of interconnection that are found in Cosmology and Astrophysics, and taught by the Dalai Lama.

I am fortunate to have a strange and wonderfull and eclectic bunch of friends, all with their own individual take on things.They are all constant inspiration to me. The top panorama picture is Jake in his studio.

`There is a growing interest amoung the scientific community in Buddhist philosophical thought. I am optomistic that over the next few decades there will be a great change in our world view both from the material and spiritual perspectives`.

Dalai Lama

`Dangerous Saracen Magic...`

2009-09-23T03:19:00.000-07:00

...a quote from William of Malmesbury, an ancient English historian and monk, refering to the new and alien Eastern counting system that introduced the Zero. In early Christian philosophical values, if God was the infinite, the everything; then nothing, insinuating the absence of God must be the Devil. The introduction of this foreign ,sinister and dangerous abscence, was indeed the work of Satan himself.

No Chair ?

Chair

On the Increase.
Size update 133 cms

Well, suspend your disbelief and it sort of works. Covers in a crochet mist, more than excludeing from the picture. Peculiar how uninteresting these images are. Sort of nowhere in their developement of invisibility.

`Nothing will become of nothing.` As King Lear said. Well, Ihope so...

Lastly, `The less anything is the less we know it: how invisible, unintelligible a thing is nothing.`

Thank you John Donne.

Follow this link for something very beautiful.

Future Sailors?

2009-09-22T03:47:00.000-07:00

A game of lights and crosses on the ceiling.

Dolly Parton said (We love Dolly...) ` If you want to see a rainbow, you gotta put with the rain.`

Prisms Dolly, are the antithesis to your pretty little idiom. ( Smug.) I have a faceted hanging drop shape in my window. Putting aside the inverted snobbery of it being hippy tatt, I love the tiny oblongs of the spectrum that visit my studio on sunny days. I want hundreds of them in a giant hexagonal glass room, and mirrors on the floor to reflect the purest natural joy of little flying coloured lights surrounding you. Ah, infinite science bliss.

Still reading The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments, I have come to the troubled genius A.A. Michelson. Investigating the existance of aether, the stuff between the stars, he and his partner experimented with lights and mirrors to determine the exact speed of light using an invention called the interferometer. Love that word.

The chapter begins with this quote.

`There are no land marks in space; one portion of space is exactly like every other portion, so that we cannot tell where we are. We are as it were on an unruffelled sea, without stars , compass, surroundings, wind or tide, and we cannot tell in which direction we are going. We have no log which we can cast out to take a dead reconning by; we may compute our rate of motion with respect to the neighbouring bodies, but we do not know how these bodies are moving in space.`

James Clerk Maxwell, Matter and Motion ,1920

Science states now, that there is no ether, no empty space or unfilled vacuum. The Space of our universe is filled with the cosmic microwave background at the least. Has that made any difference to anything? Future sailors is a Mighty Boosh lyric

Further Evidence of Event Horizons

2009-09-21T13:42:00.001-07:00

Its been a long gap in blog entries. Although the crochet masses have been multiplying, I have been a bit short on inspiration.

I have been accepted as a fellow associate of a group of artists called Fibre Art Wales`. I am honored to be member number thirteen, which is a fine number.

`Journeys`, opens at the Rhonda Heritage park on Saturday 26th September and will show work from the members of Fibre Art Wales including my piece `Event Horizon`. I am chuffed to bits! This is how I left the installation today, but I need to edit the DVD and tape down the black wires that are visible.

The piece investigates the identity of the singular, when challenged with infinite repitition and multiplication.

Further evidence of Event Horizons are here

or here

Thoughts of Diverse Bignesses

2009-09-12T02:17:00.000-07:00

`The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments`, by George Johnson is, as Roger Penrose says on the front cover,`Delightful succinct and elegant`. Its easy to read, illuminating and explaining aspects of popular science knowledge , making comprehension really complete. Scientific history , the stories surrouding discoveries you thought you understood, made as plain day. Or, that is, the light that informs our eyes, that we have named day.

Having one of those moments of anthropic principle epiphany, it occurs to me that the sun is the supplier of all the light, and therefore the colour in our lives. Without light there is no colour. ( Sounds obvious, but as I said I was having one of those moments).

Too much light - no colour as well. Our eyes are designed (or have evolved, carefull now !), to digest specific conditions, so we can observe what happens to sun light when it`s refracted off solid matter. (Well, the sun could be doing what it does with or without our eyes, but with relevence to discussing colour...) This helps inform our very existance. One of our treasured senses.

The nature of colour in light is explained simply and beautifully in the Newton chapter.

We appear to have a world tailor made for human existance.The fact that humans exist at all at this time , in a infinite universe of infinite possibilities, and infinite invisibilities. I wonder what Newton would have thought of Dark Matter. Standing on the shoulders of giants.

A Round of Crochet

2009-09-10T13:36:00.001-07:00

May be it should have been called `Around Crochet`? Here is a link to the video, that relates to the circular stills below.

`On Floating Bodies`.

2009-09-08T04:12:00.000-07:00

Geometric
Photographic

Dramatic

When not at home, the things that remain constant, even at a distance, are essential

to maintaining an emotional equalibrium . Earths moon is a cliche sited in so many instances, and so many cultures, it has universal meaning. This full moon was no exeption. The moon was, on this night a shining thing of polished beauty. Perfect in design , shrouded with mathematical coincidences, ( thinking about how the moon and sun are the same size during solar eclipses), the cleanest and most accessible of all our assumed deities. Paramour to the silent masses ,calender for all time. I suppose the moon allows us to sense your place in space time without the insecurities enforced on us by linear time.

Taking pictures of the moon bemuses me. I spent more time clicking away, with various results, than I did taking time to look. Quality time to be still is a rare thing. Taking pictures of that kind of moment is quite a futile thing really, in some respects.

What Sort of Unobserveabillity?

2009-08-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

Still

Stiller

Stillest

Subtle differences are caught in these stills , taken from a new short animation. I wanted its layers of almost invisible crochet to look like a globe, the stills are little lunar. Mostly though, it reminded me of the smallest drop of a sample under a microscope, in a Petri dish or on a slide. Clean ,crystaline and pure. Is it a cure? Is it a clone... No its CROCHET! The answer to everything.

I will make a link to the film as soon as its down loaded, it will take a week with my slow connection! Thanks once again to Jake Whittaker, editorial white giant, (www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk.) as usual.

Are the formations in these aqua circles, a clue to the nature of the mythical ring of blue light ,thought in certain parts, to summon an instant cloaking device in cases of extreme need. Could that legendary covering of blue magic, actually be made of crochet as well ?

Screaming Dark Matter

2009-08-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

Make the stairs go away... or does the crochet dissappear?

Lost in the sky, but getting bigger.

From `Blink`by Rebecca E. Marshall, part of the `Ways to Dissappear` exhibition.

Suddenly I realised his pattern held a message,

something wordless clicked into place, an understanding.

When I closed my eyes I could see the same pattern

in the blackness.

Open close, open close.

Blinking I dissappeared.

Dark matter . Matter in our universe is out weighed by a factor of 6 to 7 by invisible cold dark matter. So says Marcus Chown, ( He and Phillip Ball are two of my favorite popular science writers.) in the New Scientist this week. Issue number 2722, page 38.

`The idea of working with the unobservable is not foreign to modern science.`- Melivin Bragg, In Our Time.

Cold dark matter doesn`t react with light, so we can`t see it. That doesn`t mean its not there... or is it?

Either Dark Matter, or Newtons calculations about gravity were incorrect. Lawks! That`ll put the cat amoungst the pidgeons.

I Spy,With My Little Eye Something Beginning With... i

2009-08-17T05:52:00.000-07:00

Floral Division

Chrysanthumum Math

Finding beauty in symetry, is apparently down to the human brain finding symetrical images quicker to process. This could explain the general fashionable consesus, that natural is beautiful, symetry is simple, which is a type of beauty . Although our contemporary aesthetic taste has become more sophisticated, art may have begun with human ritual emulating the symetrical beauty in nature by trying to reproduce and then embelish it .

Religious art often expresses or depicts the beauty found in miracle. Whether with representational images or in the allagory of pattern , where symetry is abundant.

Scottish philosopher David Hume, defines a miracle as `violation of the laws of nature... a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent`.

Most of the stuff our universe is made of is invisible. Thats not to say it`s not there. Scientists

can neither see nor find it, but they attempt to describe it with the symetry found in equation.. They can`t find `God` (for want of a better term) either. Maybe `He` is wearing a the invisible metamaterial made of nanofibres thats mentioned in a previous blog. I wonder if the cloak is crocheted in a symetrical pattern.

`Belief in miricles need not be inconsistant with an acceptance of science.`

(Professor Hugh McLachlan)

Invisibility isn`t.

2009-08-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

This is a picture taken by the NASA Spitzer telescope. It is 50 million light years away.

Thats 50,000,000 x 5,878,630,000,000 international miles. 289,381,500,000,000 miles.

Although I worked this out with info from Wikki and the calculator on my phone , so it`s accuracy is dubious.

In the centre the white dot is a monstrously huge Black Hole. It has a mass of about 10 million of our suns. The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy has only a few million solar masses, puney by comparison. The fuzzy blue dot on the left is a companion galaxy nestled in the arms of its giant galactic mate.

Information like this makes my head spark up with positon charged butterflies. It`s beyond beautiful to me. Totally inspirational, and wonderous to see what our universe is made from.

If you want to see The Black Hole of Carmarthen`, a piece crocheted in 2006 go to http://www.birdlouise.co.uk/ there are photos and a link to a short documentary film about the piece. It`s also in the sister blog www.eventhorizon-theproject.bolgspot.com.

Cosmic String or String Theory

2009-08-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

Swallow on the line, picture by Jacob Whittaker

`It was a lovley day: shires-long of pearled cloud undercloud, with a grey stroke underneath marking each row.`
Gerard Manley Hopkins 23rd July 1874

Beautiful, almost invisible and deadly.

Cosmic string is not String theory. Cosmic string, I read is, a one dimensional (!!!), topological
defect, that appears in various fields of space time. A line 1.6 km long is heavier than the earth. Weighty thread. Next, I need to find some scales to work out the relative weight (in planets) of a crochet hook needed to cope with this cosmic string. I suppose that the hook will have to be one dimensional as well. What IS one dimensional ? I find that even harder to get my head around than multi-dimensional. Maybe, that should read, What is ONE dimensional? Or maybe just WHAT?

In case any one is wondering, Jesus has returned to his former minute size. Watch this blog for experiment two.

Where To Find a Higgs Boson?

2009-08-06T03:02:00.000-07:00

Rest in Peace Harry Patch.

Pale and interesting
I rescued some pure silk chiffon I had printed by lazer, gave it a wash and ironed it. It`s very pretty, unfortunately in small pieces now. They may be worth filming in the breeze for a whimsical experiment. Diaphanous Alexander Calder. On a domestic level wouldn`t they make nice curtains?
For more pictures of the fabric.
www.flickr.com/photos/birdlouise

Neil Dawson, Horizons (1994).

Neil Dawsons Enormous ` Horizons`, is owned by Alan Gibbs, and is part of a collection of sculptures found on his farm in New Zeland. The other pieces are by contemporary big names including as Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra. Fab.

All the sculptures are the largest pieces ever commission by each artist. There is an article in this months Art World magazine about the farm and its stupendous collection. Well worth a look.

Dawsons is my favorite, looking like a 2D outline of a Litchenstein print, with out the need of a speech bubble to say `Oh my gosh!`. Made from steel , with the levity of a celestial counterpane it occupies for an eon what should be only a moments shake. Fabricated to frame the heavens, but anchored to the earth. Incredible, and as with many great pieces of art a little humbleing. Never full of nothing.

Voici mon secret. Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu`avec la coer. L`essentail est invisible pour les yeux.

From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery.

And now here is my secret. A very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Universal Nothingness

2009-08-03T02:44:00.000-07:00

Victorian Quilt

Quilt Bones (crochet, so far 66 cm squareish).
Traditional Welsh Quilt

I was really pleased to be at the opening of the Jen Jones Quilt Centre , in Lampeter, deepest darkest West Wales.
Not just because I love quilts, and this is only part of her magnificent collection, but because Lampeter is a quiet town, despite the university, its a bit `out of the way`, and the quilt centre is the perfect craft and culture attraction. For a few more photos of quilts,

www.flickr.co./photos.birdlouise

The patterns that form the quilts are sewn in tiny running stitches, drawing contours that defined a womens status, and kept the family warm. I am constanly reminded of the Germain Greer quote that called womens tradtional crafts `Heroic pointlessness`. Food for thought.

Blaise Pascal...

`The eternel silence of those infinite spaces fills me with dread.`

Also thinking, of course, about the gaps between the stitches, the no- stitch. The other . What Newtoinian physics in science, called the Ether, the measurement of time and space made on an invisible graph of only three dimensions. `We` now know the gaps between sub atomic particles to be filled with electro- magentic waves and gravity at the least. The concept of vacuum defunct, and upodated with space time incessentness, if there is such a word. I wonder if Pascal would have found these new scientific theories some kind of mental comforter, a quilt for his dread.

Space is filled with connectivity. The vast majority of which is invisible . Some of which is undetectable. Anti-Quilt , crochet loops of an invisible conducter.

Anthems of the Barely Visible

2009-07-30T06:19:00.000-07:00

Square Cloud Nanowire and Meta Material

The latest web like dream constuction, in another binary language of stitch -no stitch. Crocheted in a nylon thread so thin my clicking thumbs can hardly grasp its existance. The photos here and on flickr http://flickr.com./photos/birdlouise/ and the natural sunlight (yes, I found some),make the work seem almost Invisible.

To make a cloak of invisibility, research tells me , I need either; A ring of blue light, thrown mentally around myself at an appropriately desperate moment or, a piece of Agate empowered with the nessesary `ooomph` or, collected at considerable risk and under specific conditions the seeds of male fern or bracken, or secreting a bats eye about ones person ( forgotten in the jeans pocket and put through a hot wash no doubt!). Failing that , try digging up a dead man and swap shirts.

No mention of crochet.

Equally as lightly for the ordinary artist about Carmarthen.To make an object litterally vanish before a persons eyes, a cloak would have to simultaneously interact with all of the wave lengths or colours that make up light.

Scientists have been working on a meta material of tiny, tiny ,tiny wires which neither reflect light or absorb too much of it. By bending the normally straight photon path ,light detours around the object made of this new susbstance, sort of leaving it out of the picture. Sounds like a cloaking device to me,Captain.

They have a silicon invention which is even more effective. I must investigate further. It takes a while to read and digest these things. So, the cloak of invisibility isn`t pure fiction. Well, they report that the inventions only work on a minute scale, things too small for our gargantuan eyes to see. Or not as the case may be. If we cant see them anyhow, why do they have to be invisible? Ah, Technology.

Dualtiy vs. Plurality

2009-07-29T02:26:00.000-07:00

Trinity

www.flick.com/photos/birdlouise for more pictures.

Ah, Love! Could you and with Him I conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would we not shatter it to bits-and then
Remould it nearer to he heart`s Desire!

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. - Edward Fitzgerald.

Jesus is now drying out. Ready for experiment two. MOMA Wales has a current exhibition of competition winners, who`s paintings are themed around Fitzgeralds epic poem.

Intellegent Design

2009-07-27T03:06:00.000-07:00

His Effervesence

Promises

New Blog.

This wasn`t the most sucessfull experiment . After putting `The Tiny Lord `, into a fish tank and waiting for the revelation in size to occur, He bubbled , He lay for three days, and then He grew a little bit. Not as dramatic as I had planned. No dramatic asscention from the watery cave. In the shop they had grow your own angels. I could have grown my own host at home.

I`m going to start again - apparently Jesus will shrink back to his tiny state if left to dry out, and I`ll use a tripod and think about this a bit.

I`m not a Christian, but I have faith. I think God , for want of a better word, is all inclusive and more than any of us humans can conceive. Infinte.