w/- conversational poetry “urban64” . James my Leicester Ash has gone to ground my whatsapp chats have no blue ticks i am bouncing off your posts until Ash reabounds... - James @jaamesaldridgeart i hear you in wild wiltshire noticing words of ‘who’ ‘iceboy’ in tow walking talking observing patterns marks impressions with thoughts of #blockchaindissentart of @casartists of @ben_hart9 i thankyou even thoughts of me - with a tenuous connection a london city link i am on Baker Street - on my way on my path to visit @grahamallenhunter a friend a gentle man a painter a poet a writer of ‘fractured distraction’ now there is a link to me! thx Graham for a sneak preview of your words which fly close to my heart but must remain hidden until you set them free... - the sky is blue my frozen fingers face & toes are attached as is my camera for a few snaps - my left & rights muddled it takes awhile to retread the path - i cross the road what do i see? blocks of pure colour on which are words just for me i retrace my steps in wonder - these blocks are on every corner a found urban installation i do see entitled urban64 after the year in which we were bore - yes James i agree in reality they are barriers of a sort but know this from my friend Graham ‘not all doors are barriers’ through many we can move if we know how ok i agree if not in reality then lets move through them in reimagined virtuality —- . #industrialcolour #colour #yellow #black #green #doublereds #geometricshapes #geometricspaces #urbanexplorer #spaceinbetween . #saturday #urbanexploration #onthestreets
. #colour #yellow #black #structure #space & the #spacebetween . #drawingaday #electricaltape #walldrawing .
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Ash my words are still flowing... ... the poem to go with my wall drawing 'stacked & hidden away' was inspired by the words from a conversation on whatsapp with James - lateral co-collaborator from over on blockvii #blockchaindissentart James writes about a post I wrote to go with ourlastdaysurbanexploration: - ‘I read it and let the words wash over me... connecting and finding a meaning without thinking too much about what it ‘should’ mean’ thanks James - “stacked & hidden away” - our collaboration is over our collaboration is done - unbidden words unleashed of their own accord let fly free into the universe - words in blocks blocks of words now sitting in a blog for everyone to see read by many most likely only a few what of their true meaning? is their meaning of dissenting in just being of ascending descending of movement on our city streets of #spacebetween or could it be all of the above lost in the moment of release - words in books stacked filed now hidden in virtual reality --- James
this is exactly how my words flow out of my head without thought they are simply free so i let them be in the moment of their conversational lyrical expression with a little editing from me --- words from Ash edited extracted & expanded in my response a little bit of conversational poetry a vicarious journey beyond the block --- beyond the block Ash that is a title in itself - snippets of converse i agree - the road is not uncaring to me instead it is a well worn friend who lets me be just me - 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 - on reflection over time their humility is hard won especially in this place of art beyond the norm - 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 - 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 - the flow of life like the everchanging space we live in like the markings on city road ever so small changes in detail - diversification over time descending ascending dissenting through the dense urbanscape in search of a common place & space - yes Ash we do ask where are we all flowing to? the answer is found in living in the moment - 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 - space is not ever the same --- sit reflect what can we see? #colour #structure #space #spacebetween --- 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 - 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 - as soon as I started to comment on David's post 'find the path' my words went into free fall - 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 - 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 - 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 - David thank-you for your words I had to put it into verse for my simple mind to take in.... - '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 a documentation |
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