You could invent realms of poetry and symbolism from this photo, if you wished. The truth? A walk, comfortably hand in hand, exploring for just a short while before returning to work. Stop, I said. We need to take a photograph of […]

Last spring she stayed at our house. My daughter slept soundly but Shyrin woke at midnight. “Don’t worry, darling”, I told her, holding her close, “it’s OK.” A few weeks earlier her mother had fetched her at nine because she couldn’t fall […]

Donna Leishman is now Dr Leishman! Her PhD thesis was practice-based, consisting of a visual narrative, The Possession of Christian Shaw, which is discussed and considered in terms of theory, practice, and feedback from a number of “expert readers”, of which I […]

Tim Etchell’s Surrender Control back in 2001 was “art”, but when the people behind This Diary Will Change Your Life do pretty much exactly the same thing and charge for it, it’s a “mobile service”. Sign up at This Mobile Will Change […]

Semester’s started. Sort of. Orientation meetings are next week, and teaching starts the week after. I’ve started planning the schedule, of course. There are things I could write about. But I am really not in much of a blogging mood. I expect […]