Stay the Same

  • #26 Thomas Thwaites

    Thomas Thwaites  has visited Knoydart twice now to collect mica for his infamous Toaster Project which is now going to be part of a TV series he is working on for on Channel 4. In an equally tenacious project Thomas set out to build a household toaster from scratch using raw materials to demonstrate our…

  • Response #25 Overtime by Claudia Firth

    My older sister, Claudia Firth, is also an artist. There are many ways in which our lives our weirdly parallel despite her living in the centre of London and I in the north-west of Scotland.  A couple of years ago Claudia started a project called Overtime. From her home in the Oxo Tower, a housing…

  • #24 Simon Lynch who I haven’t seen in ten years

    Simon saw this project in the papers and got in touch through facebook last month. I went to university with Simon. We also worked together as interns in the Labour party media unit in ’97  helping make short films about how great the new Labour government was going to be (we were young!). As a…

  • #22 Small cat arrives in post

    Someone in Singapore sent me a very small handcarved wooden cat in the post with a note describing it as a “woody pal” to brighten my day, which it did immensly. It’s not strictly a response to the film but was such a nice thing to receive I thought I would share it here. As…

  • #21 Calligraphy by Rufus Gerrard-Wright

  • #20 A Drawing by Rhona

    Rhona Miller is my next door neighbour, she and her sister Isla run The Knoydart Pottery and Tearoom. It is a very special place to have here on Knoydart, like stepping into a cute french film. There is lots of bunting and pretty handmade things, not just pottery and cakes, but monkeys made from scrap…

  • #19 Poem received

    Art exists to tell the truth about the human condition today we are all isolated by electronics we are lonely lost without human contact here by a remote Scottish loch on the edge of Britain’s last wilderness, a small, lone blonde film artist reminds us of ourselves. PWD

  • #18 Fiona McCade@The Scotsman

    This is what Fiona McCade had to say about Stay the Same in the Scotsman on Thursday 9th Feb. I am posting it here because although there is much I disagree with, I found it quite interesting as a response to the film and it got me thinking. I particularly liked hearing about her “Fiona…

  • #17 Portraits of a South African village

      I received these pictures and text yesterday from Rick Rohde in South Africa. There is something compelling about Vytjie’s photographs, particularly as she has been taking them over many years and I would love to see more, particularly her self portraits. I’m also really interested in Rick’s project giving cameras to young people because…

  • #16 Stuart Watson

    Stuart Watson sent me the following email for inclusion in this blog.  He is right to say that this blog is like a live notebook for a work in progress, which is very much how I see it. A virtual way of discussion and exploring the ideas behind the work. ‘Describing this with words seems…

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