Lizard (Roaming Penzance)
Lizard was born at Roaming Penzance in 2013. Roaming is a community interest company that facilitates change, most often change in consciousness. It offers a kind of studio situation, with opportunities to draw, paint,...
Author: nannyrhops
Translation as Close Reading
Translators differ from other readers in at least one way that matters, namely that they are obliged to not skip anything (apparently most readers do, regularly). In my first reading(s) of the book Gesten:...
Damaging Marks: Functionaries in Writing Education
Hour after hour, reading the writing of students who struggle (that’s the word everyone uses, and it is heavy with implications), I pass between two distinct forms of perception, two different identities, in a...
Is Digital Photography?
Betulanimbusi, reproduced here, is one image from the elegant new catalogue of Deborah Baker’s photographs, In Paradiso. Her exhibition opened in London on Thursday, September 4, at the William Morris Museum. The catalogue includes my...
Gesture and Necessity
The Extending Gesture colloquium in Edinburgh this past weekend was brilliant! I think I’m gradually forming elements of the papers and discussion into coherent thoughts, usually within the context of a given word or phrase. The...
A “good” photograph
Is it “good”? Technically, it’s OK–comprehensible, decent colour, decent resolution. The family doesn’t look hysterically happy; everyone seems a little introspective by contemporary standards.. But it’s from 1947–probably the shot for the Christmas card. Another possible...