Here you\u2019ll find all kinds of fragments, jottings and images: brief notes; extracts from longer texts; experimental writings; small drawings; photographs and other images; etc. Some of these are taken from work-in-progress, some relate to a book I\u2019ve just written (Picturing Mind: Paradox, Indeterminacy & Consciousness in Art & Poetry, published by Rodopi, 2006) and some are just passing thoughts.<\/p>\n

As an artist, writer and teacher I think of the various strands of my work as paragraphs or episodes in an unwritten book. The book\u2019s author is not necessarily myself. Some of the time I seem to be enacting a part, an idea about how art could be made or thought about. In an odd way I agree with TS Eliot\u2019s view that the purpose of art is to transcend personality, while also believing that art is a way of constructing personality or making, possibly many, identities. Each artefact and action is part of the unfolding of one long work \u2013 an assembling of fragments, episodes and insights (a florilegium<\/em>). Art constitutes a set of practices of enquiry, celebration and sharing, that enable a meeting of minds and a modest exploration of who we are, how we are and where we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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