a few disconnected thoughts on the Notre Dame burning

As I write, fire has consumed the Notre Dame in Paris. The spire has fallen, the windows have melted or been blown out, reports say the bell towers will not be long in joining the rest of the structure in a blaze. Sure, it’s just a building; but to many it is so much moreContinue

I wonder – some thoughts on winter and sunshine

I spend much of my time wondering. I wonder what time it is. I wonder what the weather will be like tomorrow. I wonder if someone is thinking of me. I wonder if it will rain later. I wonder if the sun will shine. More often than not, because it is winter, and it isContinue

Upward spirals – cultural returnings, and depressive ontology.

I think it’s very interesting that whilst I’ve been returning to the late 1990s and early 2000s through my writing, all of a sudden things that were popular then, are reappearing everywhere for me now – and I’m speaking specifically about popular things from between 1998, and 2003, rather than the general 1990s nostalgia that’sContinue

Arcadian dream pool: Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, Bergson, and memory.

The work of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas suggests a kind of many layered spectrality, and ties it, irrevocably, to notions of place. His work, Swan, which was first shown in the RA’s Summer Exhibition 2018, is indicative of this kind of layering of space. It is a photograph of the lake in Highams Park, created inContinue