Wednesday was my day off between contracts and I visited the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow as I made my unhurried way from Hyndland to Leith. I liked the work of Ilana Halperin and Toby Paterson, partly because they’re interested in things that interest me.
Ilana Halperin’s work is about the relationship between geology [...]
My brother Stuart, who appears in these pages from time to time as a hillwalker and hearing-aid expert, is also an amateur astronomer. He always had the interest but hadn’t done much about it, until his wife Michelle had the brilliant idea of buying him a telescope for a Christmas or birthday some time ago. [...]
March 25th is the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act, “An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade”, the Act of Parliament which outlawed the trading of slaves. It was the first of three Slave Trade Acts, and slavery was actually abolished only with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. The Central Office of [...]
Drawn in pen, this elaborate doodle is interesting because while I was drawing it the black was the figure and the white was the ground. So the black was the thing to notice, and the white was just the space in between, the substrate. This was natural, as I was actually drawing the black on [...]
