Dandy Flaneur

ANTWERP “A’
Pocket Handkerchief
Sporting a silk handkerchief I designed a few years back, while being a dandy flaneur on a walk from Delft to Den Haag.

Silk Scarf Designs #2 & #3

2 more designs based on meandering walks through European cities.

90cm square, digitally printed on Habotai silk, hand rolled and hemmed.

Antwerp A

Amsterdam X

90cm square, digitally printed on Habotai silk, hand rolled and hemmed.

The Fall, Albert Camus…

…also the desire to make you fully understand this city, and the heart of things! For we are at the heart of things here. Have you noticed that Amsterdam’s concentric canals resemble the circles of hell? The middle-class hell, of course, peopled with bad dreams. When one comes from the outside, as one gradually goes through those circles, life—and hence its crimes—becomes denser, darker. Here, we are in the last circle. The circle of the … 

Hof Hell

An informal collage map of Amsterdam

Glas/Clang

Glas (also translated as Clang) is a 1974 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glas_(book)

Slates by The Fall

Middle Mass

“U are what you call-but it’s better than becoming the New Swiss.A HOLY Characterisation.”

Silk Scarf Design #1

Gold Horn Beef Club Berlin

90cm scarf design digitally printed on Habotai silk:

Based on meandering walk through Berlin. I got kicked out of Hermes at Ka De We for trying taking a photo of a scarf design. Decided to design my own using appropriated symbols photographed around the city. The crown symbol is from a kebab shop, the skull is from a restaurant that might have also doubled as a sex club.

90cm square, printed on 100% Habotai silk, hand rolled & stitched hem.

Franz Biberkopf Enters Berlin

Yorkshire Grit

Yorkshire Grit: A1 digital print cut & folded into a ‘sixteenth’ type booklet. Based on a short walk through moorland up to Simon’s Seat in the Yorkshire Dales during the grouse shooting season.

Some of the language used in this publication relates to the (old) semantic/descriptive system of grading rock climbing routes.

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/simons_seat_north_yorkshire-1246

UNKNOWN OBLIVION

More Stolen Poetry

All lyrics and titles from Unknown Pleasures copied and typeset in Oblivion 24. Printed and bound at work, 24pp, 105x210mm.

Aleister Crowley

KONX OM PAX

Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light is a publication by British occultist Aleister Crowley, first published in 1907.

Asemic Writing

Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic /eɪˈsiːmɪk/ means “having no specific semantic content”, or “without the smallest unit of meaning”. With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an abstract work of art. Where asemic writing distinguishes itself among traditions of abstract art is in the asemic author’s use of gestural constraint, and the retention of physical characteristics of writing such as lines and symbols. Asemic writing is a hybrid art form that fuses text and image into a unity, and then sets it free to arbitrary subjective interpretations. It may be compared to free writing or writing for its own sake, instead of writing to produce verbal context. The open nature of asemic works allows for meaning to occur across linguistic understanding; an asemic text may be “read” in a similar fashion regardless of the reader’s natural language. Multiple meanings for the same symbolism are another possibility for an asemic work, that is, asemic writing can be polysemantic or have zero meaning, infinite meanings, or its meaning can evolve over time. Asemic works leave for the reader to decide how to translate and explore an asemic text; in this sense, the reader becomes co-creator of the asemic work.