Scrapbook
“Stare, it is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
Walker Evans, American photographer and chronicler of the Great Depression
'Image Building'
'Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture' is a superb exhibition at the sublime Parrish Art Museum on Long Island, a two hour drive east of New York City. The works on show are rich and surprisingly diverse, including Hiroshi Sugimoto's dream-like interpretations of such classics as the Rockerfeller Center …
Made you Look...?
As a film-maker and textile designer I passionately believe in the power of light and materials to shape our experience of space, to shape how we learn, and to shape how we connect with ourselves and with each other..
The Red Velvet Rope
When I was a child we spent most of our school holidays trailing around innumerable historic houses, museums and art galleries throughout the UK. My mum used to do what she called ‘homework’ before we went so we had thorough briefings about what we were going to see. It was great fun for me and my seven siblings as we wandered around,,making up stories about the people who used to live in the house or who featured in the paintings or used the tea services or stoneware we used to gaze at in the glass cases.
Only Connect
Story has never been more fashionable. Everything from insurance sales to football to toothpaste is sold using some kind of story.