Maze Life

Twists and Turns in 2018

One time I attended an event in a hotel that had some amusing notices posted up by a witty attendee. These read ' YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE'. This phrase, I later learnt, has its origins in a computer game developed for the PDP-10 * about which you can read more here.

My feeling about most of the first half of 2018 is also summed up by the above phrase, which is why I haven't written any updates until now. If I wanted to get more philosophical I might reference Plato's allegory of the cave but I think that can wait until another post.

In June - July I had my first exhibition of the year, for Arts For Health Milton Keynes, with MKDAD 2018-You See Me-moving forward. In this I was happy to show a bright, bold paper collage of mine that I'd made as part of an MK Gallery workshop with the English National Ballet. You can see more about the show on my Instagram feed here.

In July I also hooked up with Avant-Gardening and Lisa Cheung, who are artists running some art-linked outdoor play events this summer, as part of the MK Festival Fringe 2018. You can read more about their events here.

Anyway, things have started to pick up again now and so my next bit of news is that I made a new page of artwork using some of my urban sketches. This was put together specially for a new Milton Keynes literary zine called MinK, which is linked to the second MK Lit Fest literary festival. My page was selected and will be included in the zine but ...

.. if you'd like to make sure there is a print version (and bag yourself some rewards) then please support the MinK zine Kickstarter campaign by 4pm on the 8th August. They're most of the way to the target and just need a few more supporters to reach the goal but there's only 3 days left!



* many years ago I programmed a PDP-11, so I know the kind of kit they refer to