On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

I began this expedition in 2018 as a way of squaring my art circle which had begun in 1967 and died an ignominious death in 1968 due to massive cultural dislocation. Yorkshire was barely out of the 1950s while Brighton was spaced out and dropped out and jangling through its hippie flower-power summer of luuuurve phase. We had more hair than skirt length, everyone slept on other people’s floors, nothing had a lock on it, and meals seemed to come from nowhere. Not surprisingly, my brain fell over and refused to function so I went back to Yorkshire, straightened myself … Continue reading On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

Picking up where I left off

Two days after the previous post, I was flattened by a virus that took me out for more than four weeks. I said to someone that I knew how a computer must feel when its operating system crashes and it has to rebuild it without a manual. I’ve rarely felt so insightful. When mine came back up it was Windows 95 in safe mode and with no keyboard. I was on automatic, doing only what I’d done before; routine tasks which, fortunately, included feeding my cats and eventually myself. Meanwhile, my ‘screen’ blinked its cursor and did basic Windows housekeeping. … Continue reading Picking up where I left off