Lara and Richard will be talking about their books and I’ll be showing some confessional photographs. Continue reading Perspectives: Memory and Confession – an evening with Lara Pawson and Richard Scott
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The Marshes at Spark Café
A new show of old photographs in the cafe at the top of Springfield Park from 6 July to 27 September 2016.
The Golden Notebook
Anna-Ella-Doris meets a man. He is clearly a bastard. AED has unsatisfactory sex with him, falls in love, realises he’s a bastard, becomes more depressed (these events can happen in any order, but no step can be omitted). AED discovers that the Soviet Union is a tyranny and the British Communist Party is fucked up. AED has improbably frank and insightful conversations with clever fucked up people. Repeat for hundreds of pages.
The death of romanticism
smoke over a field at dawn. Would have once filled me with intensely pleasurable emotion, that this is the sort of experience one should be having, rich, sharp, textured, every sense activated, primal, suggestive – plus regret that one hasn’t always had such experiences daily, plus frustration that this is not a daily experience now. Unhappiness that one’s life is not as one would want it, i.e. not optimal, not as full of peak experiences as it could be.
Now, it’s just smoke over a field at dawn. Senses highly stimulated, in part by unfamiliarities, in part by extremes of lighting, temperature, awareness of contingency of the moment. I can get the same thing from a mid-afternoon lamppost if I want.