digital debris 1: hell

digital debris first proper show - hell (for bill) is now up.

It's a disturbing ride - but remember, it's just a ride....

Some of you might have missed previous posts about this (what planet where you on to miss my pressBlitz(tm)?) and I think I need to explain what I'm doing with d.d., partly for myself.

It's going back to the person I used to and was supposed to be, the artist who listened to Zorn and weird fucked up music, found preachers a hoot, loved spoken word and weird charity shop crap. Part of me still is that person, and a desire to create regardless of the constraints of expectation, audience, commerce or whatever. If that sounds pretentious, good, cos it probably is, but also it's where the creativity comes from, the experimentation - putting yourself out there for possible ridicule. I mean ffs I recite Blake in this new podcast, embarassing but needs to be done. I doubt many people under 50 have heard nor read William Blake's work, or Dante's for that matter.

It's part of a journey back to what might have been, what should've been, and what might still be. And the interesting thing for me as an artist, and what gives me most hope is that the create/destruction cycle or process itself can never be fully destroyed nor subsumed; it's true nature will out in the end despite the best efforts of capitalism or social pressures.

And I think this image I took in Scotland last year - where all the pictures used on dd are, my spiritual home of the Outer Hebrides and Highlands, sums it up. The beauty and the horror, and the horror that is beautiful...for that is nature; the Dionysian revel; the dance; the world.

digital debris 1: hell

digital debris first proper show - hell (for bill) is now up.

It's a disturbing ride - but remember, it's just a ride....

Some of you might have missed previous posts about this (what planet where you on to miss my pressBlitz(tm)?) and I think I need to explain what I'm doing with d.d., partly for myself.

It's going back to the person I used to and was supposed to be, the artist who listened to Zorn and weird fucked up music, found preachers a hoot, loved spoken word and weird charity shop crap. Part of me still is that person, and a desire to create regardless of the constraints of expectation, audience, commerce or whatever. If that sounds pretentious, good, cos it probably is, but also it's where the creativity comes from, the experimentation - putting yourself out there for possible ridicule. I mean ffs I recite Blake in this new podcast, embarassing but needs to be done. I doubt many people under 50 have heard nor read William Blake's work, or Dante's for that matter.

It's part of a journey back to what might have been, what should've been, and what might still be. And the interesting thing for me as an artist, and what gives me most hope is that the create/destruction cycle or process itself can never be fully destroyed nor subsumed; it's true nature will out in the end despite the best efforts of capitalism or social pressures.

And I think this image I took in Scotland last year - where all the pictures used on dd are, my spiritual home of the Outer Hebrides and Highlands, sums it up. The beauty and the horror, and the horror that is beautiful...for that is nature; the Dionysian revel; the dance; the world.

digital debris 1: hell

digital debris first proper show - hell (for bill) is now up.

It's a disturbing ride - but remember, it's just a ride....

Some of you might have missed previous posts about this (what planet where you on to miss my pressBlitz(tm)?) and I think I need to explain what I'm doing with d.d., partly for myself.

It's going back to the person I used to and was supposed to be, the artist who listened to Zorn and weird fucked up music, found preachers a hoot, loved spoken word and weird charity shop crap. Part of me still is that person, and a desire to create regardless of the constraints of expectation, audience, commerce or whatever. If that sounds pretentious, good, cos it probably is, but also it's where the creativity comes from, the experimentation - putting yourself out there for possible ridicule. I mean ffs I recite Blake in this new podcast, embarassing but needs to be done. I doubt many people under 50 have heard nor read William Blake's work, or Dante's for that matter.

It's part of a journey back to what might have been, what should've been, and what might still be. And the interesting thing for me as an artist, and what gives me most hope is that the create/destruction cycle or process itself can never be fully destroyed nor subsumed; it's true nature will out in the end despite the best efforts of capitalism or social pressures.

And I think this image I took in Scotland last year - where all the pictures used on dd are, my spiritual home of the Outer Hebrides and Highlands, sums it up. The beauty and the horror, and the horror that is beautiful...for that is nature; the Dionysian revel; the dance; the world.