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Friday, 26 December 2025

Love & Napalm: Export U.S.A - JG Ballard / The Magic of Ju-Ju skull connection - Archie Shepp / Burroughs' cut-ups and concrete poetry

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  Continuing the JG Ballard theme (see last post), here's a Christmas present...from me to me - ha! Well, I swear it was comparatively c...
Wednesday, 24 December 2025

Book: The Illuminated Man - Life, Death And The Worlds Of JG Ballard

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  RTomens, 2025 The actual book,  The Illuminated Man - Life, Death And The Worlds Of JG Ballard , is due in April, published by Bloomsbury ...
Thursday, 18 December 2025

Cold vispo: For Your Information / I love borders! / My art travels and so do I, occasionally / Music: The Shout (soundtrack) by Rupert Hine /

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For Your Information , RTomens, 2025 Here's a new 'cold' (collage of old) vispo piece. Two old pieces went into the making, with...
Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Print: Intangible / Existential psychic turmoil / Having to explain things

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Intangible , RTomens, 2025 Excuse me? No, I'm not sure... Everyone's 'all over the place' - have you noticed? Only right now...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

What is it? Visual poetry, unidentified poetic object / I am not as good as Miles Davis

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What's The Name Of This Game? , RTomens, 2025 'Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”' I don't even like the term 'visual poetry...
Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Remake/remodel vispo collage / Bad painting / Dub me...dub me always

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  Fool , RTomens, 2025 Yes, the vispo recycling continues apace. No definite stylistic approach yet and one may never emerge. Knowing me (as...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025

What's On My Mind? Death / Biscuits as financial markers / Broken homes? /Punk (hair) roots / Vispo collage reconstruction

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What's On Your Mind? , RTomens, 2025 On the bus the other day I thought 'In one-hundred-and-twenty years time everybody living now w...
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Monday, 10 November 2025

Exhibition: Poet-Artists of the French Avant-Garde: 1946 - 79 curated by Frédéric Acquaviva

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  Shots from the opening night (can't you tell?). But where are the people? I avoided getting them in the shots. People just get in the ...
Monday, 3 November 2025

OK book fair / Vispo: Just Because / Exhibition: Poet-Artists of the French Avant-Garde: 1946 - 79 curated by Frédéric Acquaviva

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  RTomens, 2025 Well, the book fair went OK. I sold a few things, mostly books...and got the distinct impression that most visitors to the t...
Tuesday, 28 October 2025

The Wanstead Independent Book Fair / Too much artwork?

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  I'll be selling stuff at this book fair.  Let me rephrase that: I'll have work on a table which people can buy, if they wanna. It...