rough doodles from the botanical gardens in oxford....... I love the shape of carnivorous plants and the lily pads.........

lily pads.............look like parachutes.....................and is military slang for Co-operative Security Location Installations, and a military term for a Scaled Down Military Facility with little or no permanent personal presence, which may contain prepositioned equipment and/or logistical arrangements...........often used as a staging ground for Special Forces and intelligence operations.

these cool ones are nicknamed monkey cups.....

doodles

mmm.............cake

Bubble wrap parka

There is a waterproof parka in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, made by Aleutian Indians. When you look closely, you can see that it's made from strips of walrus or seal intestines, carefully stitched together and embroidered.

My bubble wrap coat (above), is made from packaging.......... if you look into the bubbles, you can see the faces of children traumatised by Hurricane Rita.......I read an article in Time Magazine, it questioned if global warming is caused by landfill full of packaging..........and if global warming was responsible for the increased instance of hurricanes................

I thought how wasteful we are compared to those Indians..........the coat became a kind of oxymoron(though not in terms of speech....but to my confused mind.)....... the packaging causing the flood waters of 'rita' or 'katrina' that washed bodies away, and yet the parka could keep them warm and dry.......

...I made these lamps three years ago as part of an installation to draw attention to anthropomorphic climate change ...you can see the whole thing if you check out 'Beyond the Ivory Tower - A Bedtime Story' over the page

'There was a Door to which I found no Key,
There was a Veil past which I might not see:
Some little Talk awhile of Me and Thee
There seem'd-and then no more of Thee and Me.

Rubaiyat of Omar-Khayyam
Eleventh Century

I made the above poster from a found image of Iranian women wearing chadors, I altered it by adding small dressmaking zips to symbolize their emancipation.......there was also an accompanying book that was based on some comments on issues I discussed with Iranian Women in the UK....

Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Bedtime Story

Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.

Policy-makers & the media, particularly in the United States, frequently assert that climate science is highly uncertain.

The Pages of A Palimpsest

palimpsest /pa-limp-sest/ .n. 1. a parchment on which writing has been applied over earlier writing

which has been erased. 2 something used again or altered but still bearing traces of its earlier form: the house is a palimpsest of the taste of successive owners. .ORIGIN from Greek palin 'again' - psestos 'rubbed smooth'

'If I had a world of my own,

everything would be nonsense.

Nothing would be what it is

because everything would be what it isn't.'

Alice




I made a window into the past history of Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, with this site specific installation.....by suspending an ephemeral image of Alice Liddell, (aka 'Alice in Wonderland') in the ground's pond...... a portal evoking memories of images, including Oscar Wild, dressed in a green velvet suit and other ghostly party goers who enjoyed wild abandon at the infamous parties held there when she was a young women in her early twenties.......