Monthly Archives: October 2021

I’ve been making these inks, dyes, extractions – I’m perhaps even more unsure than before what to call them – for a few months. Not every day. Some days I just don’t want to have to think about what to do, or how to do it. In a single afternoon I watched the wind strip theContinue reading “making”

yellow escapes brown Bleeding into still – Wet parts of paper Under the iron’s heat Drawing one feature Out of the other.

Under the Scotswood Bridge, we cast a little yellow bucket over the railings. Phyllis’ photograph has been colourised with ‘July Morning Black’ ink I made from a handful of mahonia berries picked on a day a storm never quite arrived. They were combined with the splash of rust water we managed to scoop from theContinue reading “July Morning Black”

Fallen Virginia Creeper leaves Nothing on paper in spite The promise of rubies This red will remain Sealed in a vessel. Resolve to let it Run away retreat into air