Wednesday 13 June 2012

My Uncle Wynn sent me this:

from 'In Medias Res' by Christopher Reid

XV

Splitting an apple,
I find a cache of commas.
Every tomato
wears an asterisk.
A bookworm in the kitchen,
I take note
how you hold your tea-cup
by the question-mark,
and how you smile in quotes.



from Arcadia, OUP 1979
© Christoper Reid 1979

And so I made this mobile:









Look at Wynn's blog, it's great.. http://www.wynnwheldon.com/

Monday 11 June 2012

Patrick's Portrait


A while ago I helped my friend Patrick make a portrait of himself on the sandyish beach in Hove.
We used dried sea weed for his hair, pebbles for his eyes and starfish for his mouth.
It was part of his application to do Architecture at Cooper Union in New York (the second hardest college to get into in the US after Harvard). HE GOT IN, which is not surprising really if you look at the work on his blog!...... http://patrickcollingwood.blogspot.co.uk/