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#sun #shadow #ghostsonthewall #sun #shadow #ghostsonthewall
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#isleofman #watchingthedectives #passingby #bigbro #isleofman #watchingthedectives #passingby #bigbrotherhasfoundme 🔈
I am currently Artist in Residence with this amazi I am currently Artist in Residence with this amazing project. Read more about it in todays Guardian article. Link in bio. @beyond2022
Tally sticks: Medieval English split tally sticks Tally sticks: Medieval English split tally sticks (front and reverse views). The stick is notched and inscribed to record a debt owed. The system of using Tally’s only stopped in the mid 1800’s. I photographed these sticks at the National Archives Kew this week. One of the team working on the @beyond2022 project who can translate Latin but not Hebrew found out that the Tally stick in picture 3 belonged to: ‘David of Oxford, formerly known as David of Lincoln, who was one of the most prominent English Jews of the 13th century. His father was Asher and it is not clear when he would have moved to Oxford. However, in 1219 he was one of the six representatives of the wealthy class selected from all English Jewry to apportion tallage. He had dealings all over the country, including Warwick, Berkshire, Buckingham and Northampton and his clients included many of the aristocracy” The Oxford Chabad Society
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#sundaymorningview #notesfromtheroad #naturesdiamo #sundaymorningview #notesfromtheroad #naturesdiamonds💎 #dewdrops
Edie&Kitty 🔈#bestfriendsforever @onnymc #dogsof Edie&Kitty 🔈#bestfriendsforever @onnymc #dogsofinstagram #catsofinstagram #dogsandcatsofinstagram
#starshipenterprise #thereturn #starshipenterprise #thereturn
#roundtheblockandbackagain #roundtheblockandbackagain
#seeingfaces #saturdaynightsundaymorning #notesfro #seeingfaces #saturdaynightsundaymorning #notesfromtheroad #storiesofthenightbefore #art #colour #abstration #lifesrichtapestry #redcabbage #redonion #polystyreneballs #popadom #lettuce
#newspecies #newspecies
THE BODY IN THE ARCHIVE I have been interested in THE BODY IN THE ARCHIVE

I have been interested in fragments or the fragmentary for as long as I can remember.

Nuggets, 
Clumps, 
Lumps of stuff that get stuck or tied together, that then need untangled;A spaghetti junction of leads, belonging to battery chargers, hair-dryers, table lamps, Christmas lights, phones. In the past I’ve been known to go into my sisters or brothers houses and untangle messy leads while chatting over our day to day lives. 

It’s also a bit like how I remember things. My memory brings stuff back all mixed up, having been forgotten and then only half remembered: A few words heard here, a single photographically clear image there; A texture, a taste or a smell are sometimes wrapped up there too but this is rarer.  As they return I start to unwind the jumble of knots.
“What was that? “
“Who was there? “
“What did they say? “

There is never a full story, just parts of.. remembrances… a memory full of fragments.  Somewhere among the disarray something inspires me to begin the process of making sense of the jumble. 

 @beyond2022 
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‘the more I find out the less I know’ Jimmy Cl ‘the more I find out the less I know’ Jimmy Cliff 

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#nighttime #passtime #windowontheworld #windowpeep #nighttime #passtime #windowontheworld #windowpeeping #focusedattention #gaming
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‘We are not the centre of the Universe. We spin. ‘We are not the centre of the Universe. We spin. We speed through space. We circle the Sun. We live in a wandering star. The apparent steadiness of the Earth lulls the mind into a false stability. The bodies foot feels so secure that the mind interprets the movement in the sun and the moon, the planets and the stars as motions external to the earth’  Galileo’s Daughter
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