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What I Notice...

2/8/2018

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Hi James, I find the way you look at the environment surrounding us very interesting. Reading what you have written makes me think about the separation in my head between my practice and things I witness and experience. Maybe to continue the process of "getting out of my head" I need to start thinking more about what I notice, and engage with it rather than passively viewing. 

Now in remembering my walk to the studios this morning, I realise there are very minor, but specific, things in the environment that I notice and remember. For instance, the date a bridge was constructed,  an oddly shaped dent in a car and a new Will Coles "you need us more than we need you" plaque I hadn't noticed before. These plaques have been cropping up all over Bristol for a while now and bring the backdrop of environmental destruction we face to the front of my mind - something that is always in the back of my mind when walking anywhere and viewing human constructions. These plaques by Coles bring into the limelight underlying truths that we often forget in subtle ways; a little reminder. 

​The fog that filled my mind seems to be lifting, as the words uncover I find clarity in my ideas again. This idea of revealing truths seems fitting, revealing them into the commons, making them accessible...
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Ash from block II
2/10/2018 09:32:27 am

Just a few thoughts and reactions. Make of them what you will:

Work doesn’t pay
it just fucks you into being a drone

It stands behind you
groping your mind with incantations
of grandiosity and banality
In equal measure

There is no poverty in play
It frees the mind to wonder beyond constraints

Standing with you
coaxing thoughts into understanding
Through missteps and misunderstandings
into new realities

Copyright is killing us
Cavorting ideas into capital

A sniper sitting out of view
Ready to assert ownership over its intellectual domain
Stifling a plurality of perspectives
To ensure sole survival






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Ben Hartley
2/10/2018 01:02:55 pm

Thank you Ash! Those words are great, and certainly give me some inspiration!

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