Vortex Basildon

Publication and commemorative T-Towel

“LONG LIVE THE GREAT VORTEX SPRUNG UP IN THE CENTRE OF THIS TOWN“

Blasting and Bombadiering

Here’s Michael Bracewell on Mark E Smith…

Already, Smith’s campaign bore marked similarities to the BLAST phase of Wyndham Lewis and the vorticist assault on inter-war Bloomsbury. Lewis was a Renaissance man without a culture vital enough to support the fulfilment of his talents. Similarly, Smith is locked in a position of trench warfare, blasting and bombardiering against a fashion-driven society which is indurate to all attitudes save its own conservative ‘non-conformity’. Thus, Smith is cast (again like Lewis) as a cat amongst pigeons, stalking the effete by saying the unspeakable. 

https://www.frieze.com/article/mark-e-smith

Jessica Dismorr

Always a nod towards Dismorr’s illustrations for Blast.

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.”