Notebook
Marking Time
How does our relationship with time affect how we perceive our own lives? By remaining stuck to the notion of the 24-hour clock, are we being subsumed into the constant feeling of a daily countdown? Seemingly watching our lives slip away like sand through an hourglass, always wondering whether we can ever do enough to feel satisfied by what we are so conscious of losing…
Poem: Song Of The Sirens
The lyrics to the third track of the Mermaiden Suite, ‘Song of the Sirens’.
Henry Mancini | 100
In loving memory of my favourite composer of all time, Henry Mancini, who would have turned the grand old age of 100 this year. Here’s to all the wonderful music he wrote, which still is, in my mind, completely unmatched.
(Including a Spotify playlist featuring some of his most famous works)
A New Generation Of Artists | Part 4
If our new generation of artists truly were rebels of their time, what exactly would they encompass? These are the five things I would aim to inhabit and express on this journey.
A New Generation Of Artists | Part 3
“Romanticising the plight of the former artists, and wearing their suffering as a costume just won’t cut it anymore. We have our own problems that we need to fight in our own way.”
A New Generation of Artists | Part 2
A certain silence has fallen across the artistic industries of our day. Fear has permeated every corner with few choosing to stand up for something bigger than themselves, choosing instead to watch their own backs. But how long can this last? Soon the riskless will realise that their silence can only protect them for so long.
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