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How best to love a tangent.
In an exploratory project such as this there are naturally a lot of tangential directions of enquiry and investigation that run the risk of taking one off task. It’s important to keep the destination in mind. Yet, if I am to learn to keep a momentum in my practice and grow as an artist beyond…
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The advanced technologies of “primitive” peoples and getting triggered.
I’ll warn you now reader. This post will be something of what – I believe – the kids these days call ‘a rant’. It’s relation and importance to the project is probably very small. But it’s something that is in my head right now and needs to be exorcised through writing. I promise at least…
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Meeting with Glyn Hall-Edwards
Today I met with Glyn Hall-Edwards deputy Harbour Master in whitstable and builder of several cedar strip kayaks, including designing and building the unique kayak for Adam Chodzko’s 2010 work Ghost. I was interested in hearing more about Ghost, not least because I did some work for Adam back in those days and remember following…
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A vessel with no destination
Here’s another thought taken from my reading of st. Brendan that I feel really speaks to the unspeakable allure of making boats. St. Brendan set off on his voyage somewhere in the 500s, a time when no one knew if anything lay off to the west, beyond the Atlantic. It isn’t that people thought there…
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Behind the Seaside – thinking about Folkestone and it’s water.
I’m planning to make water going vessels, and I live and work in a coastal town. And so the following is some thoughts, ideas and investigation about Folkestone as might pertain to what I’m going to be doing in this project. As will become normal, this post is just a slither, it’s a thread to…
Jim Lockey 