English never met a noun it didn’t want to adopt. It has words for drizzle, shower, downpour, mist, mizzle (surprised?…me too) sleet and hail – which feels like overkill for something I’d happily live without – but it still leaves some fairly inconvenient holes. English has a word for the smell of rain on […]
Imagine you’re a word, and you’re choosing your final resting place – are you nestling into a soft bed of linen? Or sliding around on polyester? My confession before we get to the poem part: the paper it ends up living on has had a previous career. THE PAPER HISTORY For most of […]
There’s a name for what happens when language stops being information, when it moves beyond story and starts being a vibe. I’ve been calling it poetry design. It isn’t a movement yet. If I have my way, it will be. Not to be a gatekeeper: to invite participation. If you’ve ever walked into a room […]
WORDS FOR WALLS – STUDIO NOTE Words belong not just in books, but on walls. Words for Walls came into view after I had started giving language a personality and it was begging to go on the wall. I took note. It became clear to me that, as an artist, language was my medium […]
Back to The Journal OR PERHAPS YOU WILL PREFER TO THINK OF THIS AS THE THE RULE OF THREES Good news! Your house too, can look like a magazine cover. I happen to have it on good authority from the otherside that our world as we know it would not operate, nay exist, without the […]
When I was five my parents built a new house for us on a horse paddock. I’ve no idea what happened to the horses because we were 100% NOT a horse family. It was the 70’s and no one was shy about decoration or proper heating. Heaven. As a small Leo roaming the world I […]
It’s one of the most vulnerable things you can do – create stuff and share it with the world. I’ve always said artists are sharing with you all the things you didn’t know you couldn’t say. Amanda Billing, a New Zealand born actress, artist and photographer, has been doing this for most of her life; […]
