Good morning. Im planning a bit of simplification, with more time returned to the things I love, and less time to the things I don’t…
Here’s the full series of my images, released for this project... a set of four, one for each track…
#music #newmusic #coverart #image #graphic #artwork #artist 
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‘Small pieces of everything’ - an image series selected from all the bits of snapshot dust and debris that seem to endlessly gather in my pockets…
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I’ve be driving for 40 years (yes, I am that old) and I’m increasingly saddened by how unaware and uncaring of those around them drivers are…
Of course, I understand that reveals and mirrors my more general personal concerns about how generally self-obsessed and uncared of others people are becoming…
But it does just make driving unnecessarily fucking difficult…
…along with the last of a series of new images I had the pleasure of making for the cover art 
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RELEASE DAY !!
This beautiful debut EP is finally released in full today…!
https://awal.ffm.to/thefamiliar
#music #newmusic #coverart #image #graphic #artwork #artist
#onaclearday #theskywasclearer …background and related blog notes are archived here:
https://mikebrookes.com/blog/category/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-for-ever/ nostr:note1txue6y8xu90fxk5ejs8y483eurqmjdjglmgm6xst796kcl0rghnshzalkg
#onaclearday #theskywasclearer …a selection of related documentation stills from the archive are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brookescasado/albums/ nostr:note1txue6y8xu90fxk5ejs8y483eurqmjdjglmgm6xst796kcl0rghnshzalkg
It was a year ago today, that we opened the doors and began the latest and most intimate manifestation of our large-scale public performance cycle ‘On a clear day you can see for ever’...
An artwork centred on the act of publicly dismantling and breaking down a used family car into its smallest possible elements – considering the car as a geophysically improbable place and object, as an exemplar of the wider landscapes and interconnectedness it embodies, through its physical combination of all the materials and processes gathered in its construction…
And it’s a work that continues to attract attention, and that we were invited to talk about again only this past week… so there will no doubt be more to come from this one…
#onaclearday #theskywasclearer #performance #intervention #action #artwork #artist #art #artstr 
Anything genuinely recognised as a right can’t be either given of taken, only asserted or denied…
SPOE # 31 – a little bit of fallen sky… ?
#smallpiecesofeverything #image #artwork #photography #artstr #artist #art 
SPOE # 30 – a sign of many things, and nothing…
#smallpiecesofeverything #image #artwork #photography #artstr #artist #art 
Núria’s web archive, for more info on her work…
https://www.nuriaguell.com nostr:note1xx8x3e2zuap76z5sjjn0688669snn7st3zrdut857rgqlehchw6suaf2nx
‘Teaser del proyecto "Paraules d'amor" - Núria Güell, 2024’
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Paraules d'amor (words of love)
This past week we’ve been working with Catalan artist Núria Güell, to help her finalise and perform a new and difficult piece of her public work - commissioned this time by a big theatrical institution, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya in Barcelona, as part of an experimental programme of new works asked to explore ideas and understandings of ‘love’.
The premise of this particular work was simple enough… to invite a diverse group of people who have experienced or been convicted of violence they consider to have been motivated by love, as they understand that, to work with a writer to articulate their passions and actions as a poem… and then to stage a public meeting and reading of those texts, by and with their authors themselves…
The reality was always, and intentionally, going to be much more complex…
We’ve been working together over the past months to help her find a form and structure for the public event of that reading and meeting… an open social situation where we might all feel comfortable enough to be able to really meet and listen to each other, and to ideas and descriptions of things that we might more usually avoid… and to see where that might take us…
And this last weekend, a few hundred of us gathered in a reconfigured theatre auditorium to do just that… it happened in ways that felt almost as strangely familiar and easy as it was surprising and unsettling… and for those of us there, the ripples and questions are going to be coming back for some time…
Which was, of course, the hope, and the point…
#performance #intervention #collaboration #artwork #artstr #artist #art
Small update: Nostr apps now has search and filter by platform on desktop https://www.nostrapps.com/
Let me know if I missed your app, or any other app / tool.
I’ve said it before, but like the new clear look and functioning of this a lot… especially on phone…
Do people really still have heroes? Thought we’d got over that by the end of the 1970s…