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 I delivered my first six Confused Flags for Artobotic’s Brexit Art Machine this week. The idea of art vending machines selling random works of art is new and exciting! I know many of my friends and colleagues contribute regularly to the art machines, and I am delighted to be taking part alongside them.  Flag no.2 has a fold-out which the owner can play with, creating a new flag by opening it out over the other half of the support:  <<<<<<<ARTOBOTIC!>>>>>>>>  I am delighted to have been invited to contribute to Artobotic's Brexit Art Machine!
Artobotic place repurposed vending machines filled with small brown boxes containing original art at selected venues.  Getting ready for autumn, we cut back the sweet pea climber in the garden this week, and I found a horde of treasures lurking at its base: curly dried up tendrils, leaf skeletons, twisty stalks etc. I tried to take photos of them but it wasn't working - frustrating, when I could see the beauty, but the camera just noted a messy pile.  I remembered in July 2010 I experimented with placing flowers directly on the scanner, covering them with a black T-shirt and making scans. I loved the old-mastery results.  I tried doing the same with the sweet pea hoard with excellent result. Every curly tendril, skeleton and wizened thing captured in the bright pass perfectly. Thanks for visiting, see you next week!
 I was excited when strong winds blew in this week, bringing chestnuts to the ground - here is my stash! They vary in stages of development and size; some as big as apples, others like walnuts, and some very small. The smallest ones had broken in half and at first the interiors looked just like white pith, but I found they easily pulled apart to reveal tiny little chestnuts snuggled inside. Glossy as though waxed, their imprint can be seen clearly in the pith, exactly as if they have just been turned out of a mould. Larger fruits display early spines, still quite soft. A few have surfaces like tiny cantaloupe melons; I found them like golden moons lying in the grass.  This one is the same size as my thumbnail, the tiniest chestnut I have seen, although I am sure smaller can be found. It is interesting to compare this with a sprouted one I dug up last week, when I remarked that the shell was still intact although separated from the young stem, and full of an oozy, gel-like substance - that must be what becomes of the pith over time.  I tossed my hoard into a small hump-moulded dish I made a few years ago when I was studying ceramics. I didn't arrange it at all, but I am taken with its accidental Ikebana-like appearance, and it has pride of place in the hallway!
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Welcome to my work journal. I usually post here once a week on Sunday, but there are often 'bonus' posts in between of interesting things like growing carrot tops and avocado pits, the odd piece of work I do as Binky, and news items.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing, photographed at intervals of several months.
(My shoes look so new in the first pic!) 
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A 2013 work book, still very much in use 
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