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My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
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Walter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
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Walter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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First of my touch pieces
I am currently working on a series of touch pieces for my talk at SCOS at the weekend. I can’t cart the book itself all the way to Poland so I am making the equivalent of a touch table. This one...
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Second of my touch pieces
When I first started the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ piece, I thought I would do something around deconstructed stitching, which went through a bit of a vogue in the 1990s. Basically it’s...
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Final touch piece
I have been having a burst of energy finishing the touch pieces for my paper at the weekend on Walter Benjamin. I have been reading more about him and apparently he loved the baroque and the...
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Sorry about the gap
I’m very sorry that I haven’t posted much this month. Oddly May-July is a really busy time for me and a lot of academics. We have exams, exam marking, exam boards, external examining of other...
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A post as much for me as you
Today is a momentous day. I have finally started work towards my book. I have sat down and written out plans before for a book which all came to nothing, because I think books have to be ‘ready’...
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War collar number two
The second collar in my series of wearable armour for corporate women is this blue neckpiece. The idea here is to make a protective piece. So, according to the sort of folklore I was brought up...
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