‘Fancy a thrashing?’ are often the first words the family ask me in the morning. They are referring to Malefiz, a German board game. Gabriel Byrne in ‘In Treatment’ might wonder if this was a safe forum for us to play out competitive feelings. The boys like the teams to have names, and the ones [...]
In between arguments and stopping periodically for tea and toast we are working and talking about how to get across what the paintings are about. Matt thinks people will find it hard to see why the paintings aren’t nostalgia for a moment in the early twentieth century when painting was interested in science and colour [...]
It is 2.30 in the afternoon, and I am exhausted. I didn’t sleep at all well last night, and neither did Matt. He is a little tense. Throughout the night something would wake him and he would demand ‘ What are you doing? You’re blogging again. Stop blogging.’ I would reassure him that I wasn’t [...]
Yesterday I was talking about consciousness raising by torchlight. Today it’s light from a different point of view. It is difficult to convey the importance of light to an image. I don’t mean lighting, which is a wholly different matter, external to the thing itself. I mean the effect of apparent light from within — [...]
A problem has developed in the Biggs Collings household. Matt is jealous of my blog. Every time I go near my computer, which like anyone in the modern world, I do throughout the day, for a multitude of reasons, he says ‘Stop blogging. Our show is going to fail because of your blog. You are [...]