the emotional blackmailers handbook

an art exhibition at croydon clocktower with a specific historical text featuring some wonderful paintings by former patients of psychiatric hospitals in the area, notably richard dadd and louis wain, but with many other works that engage, delight, perplex, and even move one to tears

i include a link to bethlem hospital's short page on william kuralek and the leicester gallery's and the wikipedia article on the same

http://www.bethlemheritage.org.uk/gallery/pages/LDBTH149.asp

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/10306

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kurelek

http://www.croydonclocktower.org.uk/tempbeta.aspx?ID=360

Sunday, November 09, 2008

singing or whistling ?

as a child in north wiltshire, i would stand beneath the telegraph posts besides a quiet country road and listen to the soft whistling of the wind in the wires, believing it to be the composite sound of many voices whizzing back and forth between malmesbury and tetbury, faster than the invisible jet fighters ( hawker hunters from kemble ? ) that sometimes used to break the sound barrier far above us on sunny days