The Circumflex

Years ago, when I still had some semblance of managerial status and the corporate world wasn’t so abashed about corporate entertainment, I attended a ‘fancy dress’ ball on a Second World War theme…perhaps it was on a notable date…1995?  Some guy, a client, turned up in a black SS uniform.  I was amazed you could [...]

It is the sense of the spatial and the temporal which photography fails to capture.  No matter how artful the practitioner or how wide the lens, that spatial sense – the bending of the picture plane – and the depth of time and rock, the connectedness of natural colour – its dread – evades the [...]

In one of the last South Bank Show programmes on ITV,  David Hockney, in discussing his work, highlighted the importance of scrutiny in the creation of an art work.  He expressed the belief that human beings have an eye for scrutiny…they see it and relate to it.  This, he said, was why you can look [...]

I did not finish reading Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – not at the last attempt anyway.  It wasn’t that it fell by the wayside.  It wasn’t too difficult.  (it was difficult but it wasn’t TOO difficult).  I got to the end of the 5th chapter – Sentences –and I [...]

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