w/- conversational poetry

#saturday #urbanexploration #onthestreets
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#colour #yellow #black 
#structure #space & the #spacebetween
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#drawingaday
#electricaltape
#walldrawing
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words from Ash
edited extracted & expanded in my response
a little bit of conversational poetry
a vicarious journey beyond the block
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​beyond the block
Ash
that is a title in itself
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snippets of converse i agree
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the road is not uncaring to me
instead it is a well worn friend 
who lets me be just me
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like me 
it is aged in places
showing character in its mismatched peculiarities
their presence does not pervert the measured order of the street
plus they do not show humility
as no one notices their eccentricity except me
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on reflection
over time
their humility 
is hard won
especially in this place of art 
beyond the norm
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i point those marks out globally
slowly ever so slowly some people
oh so few
become aware of their existence at least
they even start to see what i see
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Ash brilliant description
 molten tarmac: surreptitious
i agree it covertly flows taking the markings with it
in slow motion it dissents 
with the solidity of the cityscape forever changing 
like the fluidities of life 
where the everyday detail metamorphosises
we do not notice 
then they pass us by
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the flow of life 
like the everchanging space 
we live in 
like the markings on city road
 ever so small changes in detail
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 diversification over time
descending ascending dissenting
through the dense urbanscape
in search of a common 
place & space
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yes Ash
we do ask 
where are we all flowing to?
the answer is found
in living 
in the moment
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the destination 
becomes inconsequential
it matters not to those marks
for - they give us a sense of place 
a playful space
​in the moment 
in which they exist
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space is not ever the same
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sit reflect what can we see?
#colour #structure #space
#spacebetween
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Karen, You've outblocked yourself. I love the pictures and text.  A new form of conversational poetry that takes me on a vicarious journey beyond the block. 

The images comes across as snippets of conversations, the broken, decrepit outdated road markings hang as profane language in an uncaring road that wither for them to whither away.  Does their presence pervert the  the measured order of the road or add a much needed sense of humility to an otherwise ordered space.  A reminder that this space is not Semper Eadem but, like us, it's evolving.  The surreptitiously molten tarmac slowly flows, taking the markings with it - dissenting with the solidity of the cityscape - we find ourselves asking where we are all flowing to.  

#urbanexploration5 14Feb2018 voice memo
file finally loaded unedited 18Feb2018

hi Ash
while waiting for my voice memo
here are a few visuals from my exploration  5

​find a path
through unbidden
​often hidden
out of balance ​directoinality

I left a comment on David's post 'find a path' over on Block VI
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here is my post from those words as a base
free flowing words added to some of yours
an edited version...

words in free fall
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as soon as I started to comment on David's post 'find the path'
my words went into free fall
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a week on since my block completed
I have discovered the words only flow
when bouncing off another
or when on the streets talking my walk
through to my collaborator in a mobile app voice over
talking 10 to the dozen to someone I know a little
but I have as yet to meet
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the world of collaboration
provides an energised space
where we can be ourselves in a common space
where my brain is massaged into action
through thoughts & words seeded from the interaction
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I am borrowing from a conversation on insta today
with Ben & James on blockvii
about legal & illegal defacement
appropriation of my words which made me LOL
as the words only came to me of their own volition
during our blockii explorations
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David thank-you for your words
I had to put it into verse for my simple mind to take in....
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'a path will go where it will go'
'do not resist'
'pay attention to what's in front'
'pay attention to now'
'collaboration is a life saver' for David and indeed me
it gave me the space to just be me & be okay in that being
'its a way to stay in the race when your tanks are blown'
'pass the baton'
'take five'
'get ready its coming back'
'work in bursts'
'thoughts take over'
let them out if they want to be heard by others
'its ok to leave the grid'
'wander'
as fast or slow as you will
​to find your own place and space
look look & look some more
'find dead ends'
'talk to others' 
talk talk talk and talk some more
'find a dead end' 
converse all to another even if it is insignificant
dead ends will have one or two points of interest to the other
they may become gems of threads and threads of gems
bounce off each other
'pass the baton' 
'wash the dishes' 
'work the office' 
'raise the periscope' 
'find the path' 
thanks again David for a virtual collaborative conversation
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dissent amongst the blocks 

08Feb2018 - one month to go
then it will all be on show for everyone to see
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this is my re-imagining of this moment in time
of our blocks of dissent
we dedicate this wall drawing
​to our CAS leaders
you are represented by the red square
you may ask why?
​I have answered your query in BlockII - transcript below...
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BlockI - Peter Driver & James McColl

BlockI
complete 22Jan2018
then the Block took off again
James your post "Reactions" 06Feb2018
has got Peter thinking of open fields
Peter comments "there could be the basis of a performance"
we will all watch and wait with baited breath....
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this is how they look from down below in BlockII 
reimagined as marching dissenters
#onthestreets or on their own pathways
​in their respective places & spaces
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BlockII Ashokkumar D Mistry & Karen Wood

BlockII
complete 05Feb2018 with a Handover by Ash
which I have re-titled "Dissenting Eulogies"
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from WhatsApp this week
I have pasted more words from Ash
which explain the reimagined re-titling
"Ashes of Wood
Wood of Ashes"
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you can be assured we are still dissenting 
me against the constraint of the square
a good place to re-start I think
Ash in words of profound purity
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we plan to meet soon in a face to face
dissenting as two
​in our performance of #urbanexploratory
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I must not make this too long
one thought I must leave you with
this week I have been back out #onthestreets
dissenting against the CAS restriction of the square
low and behold - when I am skimming low & flying high
..... all I can see are squares of blocks & blocks of squares
CAS what have you done to me?
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BlockIII Sarah Misselbrook & Denise Kehoe

BlockIII
complete 05Feb2018 with three posts 
from Sarah off grid - Dust to Dust and Cleanse where "nature is us all in the end"
​from Denise - Lost and Foundation brilliant word "Emojentic"
Denise
your taped cracks 'crackkkkuh' are a site for sore eyes
Sarah
thank you for post on Being dissents...
your horizontal connections inclusive of a touch of red
even though our connection is unseen by many
I know it is hidden & flying high from these words
'Out of the darkness
ascending...
following...
scattering...
freeing...
falling...
relenting...
repenting...
descending...
dissenting...'
the only difference being you are off grid  
while I am on the grit of the roads
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it has been a pleasure seeing your blockIII unfold
at the same time as our blockII
in a lateral dissenting line across place & space
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Block IV David Dixon & Gian Cruz

Block IV
is off the block with two posts on 07Feb2018
...or not to be & this mirrored
"without" & "having having" 
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we are intrigued
we will be watching your dissent unfold
from up above
from the top of our BlockII
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BlockV Aldobrantini Fosco Fornio & Jonathan Kelham

BlockV
Susan says "in true dissent form you have jumped the gun"
Reclaim the Personal : disarm Politicians posted 03Feb2018
I saw this on twitter a few days ago
it is summed up with a note at its base which I had to paste here:
"just becoming aware that this project is struggling
with an misunderstanding.
The design of the project is led by the idea of a Chain Reaction,
we have somehow in time honoured fashion
shoe-horn it into a trendy space, a cultural buzz,
a butterfly storm of ignorance"
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these sound like fighting words to me
is this your "dissenting opinion"?
did we receive a script to adhere to?
were we told what to say and what not to draw?
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the only rule which I heard
even that I dissent to
is the constraint of the square...
from BlockII over to you....
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BlockVI Fran Kelly & Rosina Godwin

BlockVI
got off their block with a Welcome post on 06Feb2018
bold and bright start for the block
"thinking what the word dissent meant to me
...the power to be a free thinker - to follow your own conscious
rather than the will of the herd"
"blood in art & culture"
"scarring & repair"
"a boundary between civilisation & chaos"
"exploring the contrast between the real & the intangible"
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BlockVI is kicking off vertically below or alongside BlockV
which ever sense of directionality takes your fancy
we wait with baited breath to see if they will meet
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BlockVII James Aldridge & Benjamin Hartley

BlockVII
1st post 06Feb2018 with Starting Out 
"a cold grey day in Bristol" "growing from the ashes a new beginning" 
since then BlockVII have published many posts all of which are listed here
Out of My Head
Theft/Appropriation
public/private
Getting out of my head
Head, Feet and Hands -
"with a muddled interior" - brilliant drawing
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I have just now run out of time for today
for I am documenting another exploration from the streets
I will have to read all your words through later
it looks as tho you have much to say
the titles give us a little bit of the thread to your block
note to me - please read through day by day
as BlockVII is going to be 
too prolific to be able to catchup on at the blocks end
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for the spirit of our collaboration
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our last days #urbanexploration

with thoughts & words in tow
with Ash by my side
I set off at a stride
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on my fast walk
from Putney to Wandsworth Bridge & back
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moving along
by wandsworth dump a favourite place
opposite is B&Q 
the carpark in which houses 
my favourite artists work
a defaced roadsign 
with care & precision
completed by #cletabrahams
under the cloak of darkness 
so no one can see
we are so lucky to have him in London Town
he has disfaced many a roadsign
on Bricklane and the area which surrounds
just as well my studio is now near
I am lucky to see his work #onthestreets
as a daily voice for the dissenting few
Ash
search for him on insta or twitter
you will see
his street work is loved by me & others
but not the authorities of Florence
who do not let him be
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back to our walk
the sky is blue
the first snow is falling
like seeds flung out
to see how far they can fly
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an idea is seeded in my energised thoughts
for a collaborative conversation
maybe there is even time
to do an installation!
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in wandworths park I have another thought
Ash
I am penniless at 53
through this collaboration
I have just found out
it is ok to be me
but 10 years on from my foundation
my Andrew disagrees
unless of course 
I break even
which I know is the least I can do
when joined at the hip....
but that is another conversation
to be had in isolation
when tomorrow dawns I will market my work
as I have promised so many times before
and if that fails
I will be sent round the corner
to Sainsbury's to work at the counter 
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Ash
my words just now were far too personal 
they may be edited 
then scattered 
along with your far flung seeds
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now we are at espresso time
we have travelled ever so far
tho it is only 10am
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following our walk & talk
words flow thick & fast
I can hardly keep up the pace
they started to flow at first 
in a whatsapp note to Ash
on his way to London for this walk
now my words are cut and pasted 
as they flowed too long
they want to now become
a post for everyone
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Ash
I have an idea triggered
by your morning message to me 
on our decision to make later in our last official blockII day
on what to handover
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I am typing fast without deep thought of editing
to keep up with the stream of words flinging themselves out
they want to be posted on our block
before they are lost
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my idea is good I think
but may not be!
on our morning fast walk
to my favourite place
where on the corner
I can see a view three ways
👀 of the red cranes & containers of yellow
taking our waste away 
out over the thames
this was the site for my first collaboration en-titled #displaced
where I did a video with sound and moving picture of the place
👀 of lotts road powerstation chimneys
mid-distance on my left
another favourite place to go
👀 last but not least & equally as brilliant
in the distance my shard silhouette 
standing fast for everyone to see
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Ash
back to the original point
of these words which are tripping over themselves
now in the moment
in their innocence to be heard
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shoosh words for a bit
Ash is not going away after today
you don't have to say it all now
you can hush a bit
give me space 
let me talk
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Ash
my idea - finally written & bulleted here
take “seeds of dissent”
translate to chinese
work on the characters
for colour space & structure
adding a little bit of me
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but low and behold
much better to do it as a two
with you by my side with intent unknown
as to who does what
​we shall see
for this is the spirit of our collaboration 
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