ISN’T IT GREAT? ISN’T IT MARVELLOUS? I’M FREE! I’M AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE!

‘Tradition counts for nothing when it is no longer contested and modified. A culture that is merely preserved is no culture at all.’

-Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fisher

Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both.

- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin.

‘There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.’

- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

‘improvisation is essentially an act of acute vulnerability. But it is also a path to creative freedom, to wild adventure, in which the things of true value can often emerge through musical misunderstandings.’

- Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave.

the respite of thought in the midst of a colour shower!

‘A language without words, where the mind must bow to instinct.’

-Devotion, Patti Smith.