Projects

I've decided to give myself a few project titles to work on. The aim is for me to approach working in a new way, recording thoughts, producing work, evaluating and hopefully improving. With any luck, rigorous self-criticism will pay off and I'll end up painting a masterpiece. Right.

The first working title I've landed on is "Violence as Pleasure", so will be looking at all sorts of things from the spectacle of arena combat (gladiator, bull-fights) to violence in literature, the theatricality of violence in splatter films down to the sublimated exercise of being a sacrificial agent in some computer games. I'm hoping to produce some writing as well as visual work during this process, which will maybe inspire me to be more diligent in posting here.

Tilda, Tilda

I've been wondering to myself lately if Tilda Swinton is in fact the most awesome person in the world. Apart from having a sort of fae beauty that is somewhere between enthralling and haunting, the way she leads her life is really refreshing in an otherwise boring, exhibitionist world.