A Short, Sweet Lesson in French-Muslim History ‘Parfait, Alice!’ Our instructor Guillaume, a French pastry chef, claps his hands in rapturous satisfaction. My twelve-year-old daughter carries on whisking the ganache, hiding as best she can behind […]
Sleet turned to hail as the sky darkened into evening. An occasional streetlight still functioned, flickering with a dull orange glow, but Tiffany was grateful when the last working lamp disappeared behind the car, and […]
The view from here is the border: the lake, close-up, is vertical. Not so much water as law and order. The word for it might disappear, the road run through its invisible wall. The view […]
Trains. They are still the love of our Japanese life! Since the duck and I take trains pretty regularly now, we’ve had lots of opportunities to make mistakes, and learn from them, and to assemble […]
Travelling has given me such a respect for how places and contexts shape communities and vice versa … I think it has given me understanding and it is an influence on my work. Let’s […]
I like the idea of leaving work in the landscape … creating something where it has fallen, where the environment has nurtured it, and leaving it there for people to randomly stumble accross. Want to […]
Being born on the other side of the world doesn’t mean you can’t talk to each other or understand each other … You have to stay curious about other people, and artists are curious by […]
The effects of travelling and connecting with other kinds of cultures aren’t just reflected in the work … travelling to Kampala was a profound moment for me. Let’s follow the birds and migrate from the […]
THE WANDERING BARD 