Leicester to London

1/22/2018

ourHow to Start - Transparent Communications

Sunday night I meet Ash for the first time - over the phone. Ash in Leicester me in London.

I am writing this post ahead of time in response to Ash mentioning a blank canvas needs a first mark .... thanks Ash that triggered further thoughts to get some words down on our Block_II blog. Why wait to be told ... Our first signs of dissent!

Part of my starting point will include an Instagram takeover where the collaboration project will takeover my daily posts starting on 23rd with Day1 which coincides with Day1058 on my instagrid.

I had ideas of Location to kickstart my street images/electrical tape drawings in Paternoster Square a privately owned public space. Ash responded with leave some tape behind, as in a mark or drawing rather than my usual trail of bits left behind by accident. Ash talked of how much we did of our own art & how much we collaborate. I had not thought along those lines as I think and somehow know that the collaborative part will work itself out as we go along.

Ash talked of continuing Peter & James Block_I word play in some way. It seems from one conversation we are already a team - Ash's dyslexia allows him to make up words - coupled with my hopeless sense of Left & Right when exploring the streets - this together will lead into the unknown... Off to a brilliant start..... Good to meet you Ash and looking forward to working with you ... Karen

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Ashok Mistry link

1/22/2018 10:16:12 pm

Lots of thoughts. Hmmmm. Rather than logging in I’ve chosen to dissent and leave a craft reply. Lots of things churning. In particular human agency and the need to think things through a create our own responses to things. Another thing that is in mind is the concept of the block chain and associated issues of trust, the hash and the need to order things. The block chain speaks of transactions between two parties and also negating the need to trust each other. Is all of this making us more or less human.

Remember none of this is meant to make any sense

Time is compressed
Into the six sides of this game
Connected together by hashes and squiggles
Leaving decades and years being represented by sound bytes
Uttered by people who didn’t even understand the profoundness of their sentiment when they said
what they miss-muttered
Let’s keep moving through this town
Through the pops and squeak of the old and new streets until
Until
Until what
Until why
Until we find ourselves thinking
And doing
And shouting against the authority that pushes our face down into the grime of the ground after cars and busses and horse shit has smeared the ground
After Pankhurst has died and we are left thinking of rights and freedoms
And we choose to fight the power but realise these are just Russian lies that have brought us to the brink of oblivion
Yes we understand that and we have a choice

Do we stand and oppose
Fight with all we’ve got
Or stand on the sidelines
Bend over and take it up the
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