_ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ !

2010-12-21T13:16:00.002+09:00

I don;t know anything

2010-11-30T19:00:00.000+09:00

2010-11-12T10:34:00.000+09:00

THe first work made in Japan. It's grisly and gruesome and flat as in no energy and flat as in physically, although this isn;t true because i've used layers and the paper is cricnkly. For some reason. Vibes? Metaphors? Dunno.. something.

2010-11-06T13:57:00.000+09:00

All I can smell right now is exhaust fumes from the kerosene heater.
I was thinking about trying to write something poetic but all I can think about now is Heysham Travel double-decker buses and going to school.

2010-10-30T19:57:00.003+09:00

I saw an exhibition of painting by elementary school children. They used the same technique as myself. I don't know how I feel about this! I was aware that I wasn't doing anything new nevertheless, I felt shocked. And to think it happened in the same village! I must refine my technique and expand it, develop it. It must not resemble elementary school art.

2010-10-21T08:20:00.000+09:00

The transfer process produces both an attrition and degradation of information. In terms of visual interest, phases of transformation produce exciting new combinations and new patterns (which are formed in both random and controlled ways).

2010-10-12T11:30:00.000+09:00

I'm wondering if wood-tape is nice as a patch for ripped shoji. I decided: yes, it's quite nice. I'm looking forward to patching shoji in our own place, with various things. Wood-tape must be used sparingly; or perhaps not. It's fairly expensive though.

2010-10-08T08:20:00.000+09:00

What am I working on? cut outs and Flattenation. Compressions..

2010-09-22T16:12:00.000+09:00

I felt nostalgic for the first time in a long while yesterday. I'm not sure what triggered it but it was refreshing. For me, nostalgia is refreshing. It inspires me. The past, inspires me. Tabun, it is remembering when I had more energy for making things; tabun this is what inspires me. It's relaxing, comforting, e a sy y

2010-09-22T15:54:00.000+09:00

鴬や餅に糞する縁の先

2010-09-01T17:10:00.000+09:00

Note to oneself: you must be patient.

2010-08-13T07:51:00.000+09:00

The first sign of complexity comes on day I9. A sheet of tissue forms down the middle. It isn't entirely flat: its edges furl in the middle and by way of a transverse section through the mass you would see that it forms a shallow U. The next day the U has become acute. Folds appear and disappear, slabs meld into one another. Two more days and its vertices have met and touched in the middle. A moth folds its wings. A squeamous tract forms, its walls replicate and condense into tiny nodules. The nodules swell and invert whilst replicating continuously in a mitotic fashion. Multiplication increases exponentially, a vascular sac gradually undergoes modification. A feeding organ is introduced which causes the inhibition of a pathway. Relaxation factors occur as a result of the severe cytokinesis.

The whole thing zips up; a new growth forms a hollow tube that runs most of its length. Small brick-like blocks of tissue appear either side, at first just a few, but then ten, twenty, and finally forty-four. They reach around to meet their opposite numbers and encase the tube. Underneath, the endoderm embraces an enormous, flaccid prosthetic mass. Both retract up into layers of bones and a lightweight folding material is introduced. A distended gut shrivels. Two halves of an ovipositor that had previously divided are drawn together. Inconspicuous tubes, one on either side, then unite to make a single larger tube running the length of the slab.

2010-08-09T09:25:00.001+09:00

I began to think about why I find images like this, above, beautiful. Perhaps I don't find them beautiful, perhaps they represent something else to me. I have always found traditionally beautiful images very uninspiring, but does beauty need to be inspiring? Perhaps it doesn't need to fulfil any particular need and it can simply exist isolated from everything else. I think I will try and find out.

2010-07-28T23:38:00.002+09:00

A computer asks a question, as it does every Thursday. Thursday is question day. The computer, nicknamed KEVIN (Kendal Electronic Vitrius Nonhuman) is allowed to ask a member of the Dovetail Team any question it feels necessary to ask. Invariably, KEVIN always asks Melanie a question. Melanie is an attractive cleaning lady who cleans the laboratory every weekday at 4.15pm. It is the source of endless amusement to the male members of the robotics team (the female members laugh along but feel slightly envious, especially Fovia a Polish joint specialist, age 27).

Recently, KEVIN has begun to ask sexual questions.

Melanie likes being the centre of attention, however she still feels slightly awkward talking to a computer.

This week, KEVIN asks Melanie the following question:

'Is it possible to flatten a sensation? For instance, can an orgasm be translated to two dimensions?'

2010-06-25T11:12:00.000+09:00

dunno

2010-05-19T13:47:00.001+09:00

++++Rufasu Foton Wodo *****
The outcome of a thyroid scan was this: see above. No swellings.

2010-05-12T18:58:00.003+09:00

Al Fresco Projection

Moths are attracted to light sources in the dark. One hypothesis is based on celestial navigation, TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION. Another on the MACH BAND, a type of visual distortion. As for the attraction to candle flames this may relate in some way to olfaction; candle flames produce emissions similar to the pheromones released by female moths.

2010-04-27T12:13:00.002+09:00

Dead* Crabs, a Fish, a Ray and an Asteroidea in a tank, Tokushima City

A food stand, perhaps. An aquarium, ~~perhaps~~ yes. A biological experiment, possibly not.

Even if these creatures have no memory, simply inherited behaviour, they can surely feel the presence of death. *The crabs play dead. The fish plays alive, the Asteroidea is neither dead nor alive. Breeze blocks (now covered in algae) add a slice of culture to their world.

3 つの巣

2010-04-02T01:08:00.002+09:00

fig. 1fig. 2fig. 3

Three unoccupied nests were spotted in Kamiyama, Tokushima (Shikoku, Japan.) The population of Kamiyama has dropped from 20,000 to just over 6,000 in 20 years (this statistic does not include the movement of insects or birds). Although these empty nests would seem a suitable metaphor for the decline in population within Kamiyama, there is a recent trend (that is independent of seasonal migration) whereby old nests are reinhabited by new residents attracted to the region.

2010-02-23T21:40:00.002+09:00

Above: A girl is persuaded to appear in a fake Tadonori Yokoo presentation by astronomy otaku. In order to capture a better likeness they told her to pretend she was looking 'for the answer's to all her questions' and that 'in a few years, she will be famous'. Her name is Jason. She enjoys listening to passing traffic at night, as she falls asleep.

2010-02-01T05:30:00.000+09:00

Re-editing images and text; then printed onto old paper. Images sourced from a website of auctioned property, Japan.

Our G9 san......is gone.

2010-01-27T09:34:00.004+09:00

G9さんが、、、、、

壊　　れ　　た。

時限爆弾がついていたかのように、ブツリと。まさかの１年と１０ヶ月で。

中にあるどこかのネジが緩んで電子回路の上に落ちてショートした可能性あり、という情報を見つけ、
そーっと分解して見たらほんとにネジがひとつ、回路の上に転がっていたー。

色々調べて試して見たけれど、うんともすんとも言わん。
この電子基盤？みたいなところを交換しないといけないんだろうな。

キャノンへ修理を依頼するべきか、、元通りになるのかな、、、前と変わらずに戻ってくるのかな、、

ああG9ちゃん。

とりあえず、今はアナログを楽しも。

トホ　ホ

BISA: SPOUSE TYPE

2010-01-24T07:55:00.000+09:00

Apparently my wife is a toad (original type).

===///....,,,,,,

2010-01-23T12:33:00.001+09:00

ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ

2010-01-23T12:26:00.005+09:00

rusty choc

2010-01-23T12:22:00.000+09:00

bimi

2010-01-23T12:20:00.003+09:00

2010-01-07T05:10:00.003+09:00

Cyborg ankles. An annoying look. Dough ankles, shouldn't be putting thou feet up with your comfortable stylish shoes on. I'm sure you were dithering about and stepped in poo without realising.
Now its all shkunked around - luckily, your feet are made of foam and you are not real.

2010-01-05T06:28:00.003+09:00

しん　しん　しん

雪が降って

真夜中なのに、この明るさ。

mega delish beautiful bits by chris+alan

2010-01-05T06:24:00.003+09:00

bimi. 美味記録。

プルーンとアプリコットのほろ苦チョコレートがけ。

2010-01-04T10:16:00.006+09:00

まだまだクリスマスの思い出が。　
２５日、今年はマンチェスターで。

ぼけーと魚を眺めたり

若き日のディヴィッド・ボーイを見てしまったり

シャイなこいつが出てくるのを待ち続けたり

映画・グレイガーデンズを鑑賞したり、

かわいいメグと戯れたり

くわっ　かわいいぃぃー

アラッ

アンララ

顔　がっ

！！！

2010-01-04T03:47:00.001+09:00

フロスティーな・・・

散歩道。
雪が固まってコッチコチ。水もカッチカチ。

年末だったか、年始だったか、いつだったか。
カラカラになってしまったパンを鴨ちゃんたちに食べてもらおうと、近くの水辺まで。

おお、白鳥もいる

お願いだから写真ばっかり撮らないで　という顔。

2010-01-04T03:34:00.000+09:00

まだまだクリスマス気分～

お隣さんからクリスマス・プディングの贈り物！
果物たっぷり、ナッツたっぷりで　う　うまー！

チェダーチーズといっしょに食べるとこれまた美味しい。

Two pieces of work

2009-12-30T04:27:00.000+09:00

Room Scene 1: Black cherry veneer, hardened scratch resistant glass, views of the imperial cave section, 200 yen deep pile synthetic rug, a bogey golfer arm in Wilson Dual Glove and a scratch golfer right leg in unknown garments.

Room Scene 2: Rear projection 52" plasma wall showing random 5 minute segments of the hardcore film 'Reigns over Pluto' on repeat, 2x4 balsawood planks (unused), excutive lower leg dressed in unknown fabric and Neil Barrett laced shoes, igneous rock and two extra large futons.

Snow 2

2009-12-28T09:42:00.002+09:00

Snow 1

2009-12-28T09:31:00.001+09:00

Morecambe West End: 21 December ~3pm

Cloud formations above the Midland Hotel, bringing snow.

A Christmas Tree (decoration pick up)

2009-12-28T09:25:00.000+09:00

A moment of inspiraton (no sic) and there we go. Christmas 2009 over. Neon string lights and latex prehistoric yuletide 'logs'. When its quiet you can hear the electricity whine from the neon string and it's pretty irritating - but I can cope.

More 'logs'? PErhaps, but this may have been too much.

The tree doesn't smell which is disappointing.

メリー

2009-12-25T00:23:00.022+09:00

黙々とラッピング

楽しい。楽しすぎるぜラッピング。
今年はやや控えめに包んでみました。（去年はたしか、かなり立体感ある物体になってしまった）
もう何十個でも何百個でも包み続けられる。といっても今回は、シンプルな紙袋ばかりこつこつと。
セラピー効果があるなー。

模様を作って紙に印刷して包んだり、袋を作ったり、
美術館などでもらってきた素敵なパンフレットを袋に仕立てたり、
絵を描いてシールを作ったり、もうなんでもかんでも思いつきで作り続ける。あー楽しい。

種やさんで見つけた野菜袋を使って。

クワッ　カワイイッー

２月に生まれてくるマチルダちゃんへ、小さなクリスマスプレゼント。

好きな色の紙を引っ張り出してきて紙袋をつくる。

白いシールをぎざぎさに切ってぶよぶよな形に貼り合わせる。

百円均一で見つけた、これまたかわいいトレーシングペーパーでできた封筒を使って。
同じ素材でリボンを作ってくくりました。

印刷時に文字化けしてしまい、ゴミ箱に捨てられた紙ちゃんを救助。

文字化けの模様好きだーっ。

真っ白な勲章。

たしか、森美術館で開催中の医学と芸術展のパンフレットが素敵すぎたので、袋作っちゃった。王道の赤いリボンできゅっと締める。

えーこれは。This is inspired by Cavan です。ふふふ。

ちっちゃいハンドバッグのように仕立ててみました。

これも文字化け廃棄物（？）を使ったもの。
この、ピッチリ折られていない、ふわりと赤いリボンでくくられている部分がポイントでございます。

そしてリボンはくるくる巻きすぎずに。ここ重要。まるで女学生の前髪のようにふんわり揺れることが大事なのだ。

ラッピング屋になりたい。

くりすますデコ

2009-12-24T23:45:00.001+09:00

デコってます2009。

SUPER DELISH + MOREISH MINCE PIE BY cHRISTINE hOUGHTON

2009-12-24T23:32:00.002+09:00

言葉にならない美味しさ。

美味記録。

毎年１２月のミンスパイ。

これを食べるとクリスマスが来たーって実感。

Shteamy

2009-12-19T05:12:00.001+09:00

An exquisite Japanese vapour.

なんでもない日

2009-12-17T03:09:00.011+09:00

ドドドドドドドドド（ケーキから聞こえる）

ある日の記録。
ルーさんが、日々の感謝を込めてケーキを焼く！とチョコレートケーキをプレゼントしてくれた。

せっせと作業に励む。

できたーっ

ヤッター

ぬううう　型からはずれん

バーン　バーン（テーブルに打ちつける）

ぬあああああああーーーっ落としたぁーっ

ひ　ひ　ひびがぁーっ

（ショックでしばらく黙る）

何とか風向きを変えようじゃないか-!!!!!!!!!

ココアパウダーでおめかし～ハタハタハタハタハタ

で　　　き　　　た　　　　ドーーーーーーーーーーーーン

どーーーーーーーーーーーーーん

デァーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー

その名も　地盤けーき

まるで地層を切り取ってお皿に盛り付けたかのような、斬新なケーキでございます。さすが地層好き。

ありがとよ。

p.s　このケーキはA3サイズ。

Inspiration: Part A

2009-12-16T23:12:00.003+09:00

LEFT: The back of Gerhard Richter's head. This may be one of the only shots of the back of the great man's head in existence. NB: Richter has a distinctive head. His skull may have been shaped in infancy.

2009-12-16T23:02:00.002+09:00

~~Strictly Come Dancing~~

Fragmented Mukade. This appears to be two separate Mukade, halved (the head sections are missing). The legs have been sliced also.

Christmas Tree 2009

2009-12-16T08:42:00.003+09:00

Christmas tree 2009.

+ Bought it at a farm. Farmers outfit: green wax jacket, green wellingtons and a dark blue pull-over with embroided wolf imagery.

+ Farm specialised in 'Do-it-yourself Christmas Trees'. The basic principal is to choose a tree from the small woodland area (planted up with Norwegian Spruce trees of all shapes and sizes) and either cut or dig your tree and measure it and pay for it.

+ Tree is now in living room. The spacial arrangement is 'uncanny' . Tree must be decorated.

+ How shall it be decorated?

2009-10-05T18:46:00.002+09:00

ねむい。

ものすっごく疲れている。１５時間ぶっ通して絵を描き続けて今、朝の１０時とか・・なのっ！？

しかも出来上がったものが気に入らない。もうしばらく見たくないです。

やりたいことと鉛筆と紙の相性が良くなかった。反省。

試行錯誤は楽しいけど・・今日は疲れたぞ。不完全燃焼もいいところっ。

2009-10-01T23:13:00.003+09:00

2009-10-01T01:10:00.002+09:00

みかんを食べるのが～

異常にはやい～

すいかを食べるのもはやい～

みかん箱はわたしにとっての宝箱。
どんな宝石よりも、みかんがいい
葡萄、さくらんぼ、プラム、すいか、梨、、、、もーーーーーー果物だーーーーーーいすきさぁーーーー

2009-09-30T23:54:00.005+09:00

先週末は飲みすぎた。

アルコールをプロセスするのに２日もかかったのはどうして。

もう若くないということですか。

飲みすぎたって言ったって、小さいグラス一杯、いや半分で酔いが回ってくるからね・・・

とにかく。

皆に顔を合わせられない。陽気もいいとこテンションあがり過ぎた。

しばらくは蓑隠れで、、忘れられた頃にじわりと現れたいと思います。

お酒といえばやっぱりエール！英国中でたくさんの種類を試したけれど、名前をひとつも覚えいない。
ちょうめんにメモっておけばよかったのぅ。
ギリシャ産の松脂で香りをつけた白ワイン、レッツィーナも美味。
（白ワインはあまり飲めないのに！）

どんなお酒を楽しむにしても、一番重要なのは、いつ・どこで・だれと・どんな風に味わうかだなー。
太陽がさんさんと輝く日に飲む、ピリリと冷えたラガー。
息も真っ白で風が氷のように冷たい夜に、辿り着いたパブで飲むエール。

いい思い出がいっぱい。