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An artist. A hybrid of cultures and faiths. Body is sensation. Colonial memory childhood tales violence of social expectation Art historian EgyptUK

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Hard at work. Beautiful things are coming. For @walfordmill Christmas 🎄Our Memories of The Silk Road series. ❤️‍🔥💫📙🧡💛🤎 There will be sumptuous hard back lay flat A5 journals featuring Christian’s stunning hand made ebru and suminagashi papers and my new series of miniature collages / painting and drawings. And there will be lovely lay flat soft back A5 journals/ workbooks. And gorgeous little art prints. 💫❤️‍🔥🎉All journals are made using Clairefontaine studio paper. Journals and art for dreamers and travellers to times and places far far away … porcelained and lacquered dreams … ** The paper in our journals is for writing and sketching. Good also for fountains, pen dip pens. Any ink pens. Pencils. Graphite. Not for heavy wet media or washes. It is hot pressed 120gsm smooth white with some texture and is acid free.

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Sneak peek 🫣 #silkroad journals R&D #prototyping #christmasmarket prep 💚💛🤍🧡✏️🖌️📘📕📒 Vintage Chinese prints found at Spitalfields antiques market

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A new Morphogenesis for a special someone who missed out on the first one … Each art print on the front of each hand made journal 📔 is from an original collage art work on paper made with found materials, gold dust and drawing. Our hand made #suminagashi paper and sewn with French linen. Filled with 160 pages of Clairefontaine studio paper 💚💛🤍🤎#handmade #bookbinding #collage Books 📚 for artists dreamers writers thinkers and for everyday transformations …. Lay flat journals

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Glad that A Compendium of Shadows has been bought by a wonderful person 🤎🙏🏽 @dinaszaman 🙏🏽🤎This is one of our favourites. A witchery spell book for your shadowy thoughts. For all that is secret, unclear and mysterious. Thoughts in chiaroscuro… What lies in shadow and hard to name. Circling around the unspoken. 🌚🪐🪾🪵🤎 #handmadejournals for writers thinkers artists dreamers poets spell binders #journaling #bookbinding 160 pages of #clairfontainepaper #bookbinding DM if you’d like us to make you one too 👌🏽🎉 Each journal 📔 has a beautiful print of an original collage work on paper made with vintage found images, watercolour, natural plant inks and drawing.

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This is Katabasis. A deeply underground earthy feeling. Roots reaching, down and down, further and further. Tapping into the unknown. To be of the Earth. Becoming Earth. Soil. Chthonic energies: hidden primal raw hidden ritualistic unconscious energies. Both destructive and creative. Subterranean. Depth and resonance. The liminal space between life and death. Order and chaos. Katabasis: a descent into the underworld. To search for the things that cannot be named. To pass from shadows to light. To go down is not to be lost. It is to be found and remade. The fall is not always to fail. But to remake. From this journey you will return altered. The sacred fall into the depths before becoming. #katabasis #writing #falling #handmadejournals #deepearth 🤎🤎🤎 The original work is collage on paper with oak gall ink and drawing. 19th century imagery. Journal 📔 with our hand made suminagashi paper hand stitched with French linen and filled with acid free Clairefontaine studio paper for artists writers thinkers dreamers. DM if you want Katabasis.

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Morphogenesis has struck a chord it seems and has sold out so we are making a couple more. DM if you’d like one. 🦋🪲🪵💚💛I created the original collage from vintage butterfly prints and other found materials, with brilliant inks of greens and earthy browns with a glitter of gold. Christian created the typography and the swirling green grey suminagashi papers. Our books are carefully hand sewn with French linen thread. Filled with Clairefontaine studio paper. For writers artists thinkers and dreamers. Morphogenesis comes from two Greek words meaning “shape” (morphe) and “creation” (genesis). It is a biological and natural process of change and shape formation. Also a creative process of transformation from shapelessness to form. Something that happens in the deep forest or the glade ..

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Elaborate Your Self. What was I thinking? Tell yourself more. Find something lost. To elaborate. An elaborate thing. That can’t be explained. To explicate? In words or lines. To unravel or explore the fine details? Intricate depths. To allow to unfurl - the arabesques of your most inner self ? What is a self ? Organically part of everything you’ve ever known or touched? A shell 🐚 on a beach or the bark of a tree under your skin or feeling you sensed, a presence, of something or someone. What do you think elaborate means ? What does it mean in other languages? To be precise or detailed or delicate or nuanced? Particular or thoughtful and careful? To attend to deeply. To listen. To touch inner surfaces. DM for details. This one ☝🏽 still available!! 🎉🎉This is one of our Hand made journals for writers, artists and thinkers. Each art work a collage and drawing with ink and watercolour by Salma. And typography and design by Christian 🩵🩵🩵🙌🏼#journals #writing #drawing #handmade #thinkingdeeply

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So we had our first ever market stall at @bookfacearts 🎉🎉🎉 @risingsunartscentre Huge thanks to @pigeon_246 Neile for having us and for all the incredible work organising this. Such a wonderful community and creative space. So many beautiful books and inspiring makers. We are so happy to have sold quite a few journals, art prints and books. And are already preparing for our next market at Christmas!!

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It all started with a simple idea: to help. Today, seeing the project being broadcast across Palestine on @radioalhara feels like an incredible milestone. It’s a reminder that music can travel beyond borders, and that the desire to help never really ends 🕊️🇵🇸

A handful of field recordings I captured in Palestine, together with recordings generously shared by @heyr_3d , became the starting point for an open call to sound artists. What followed grew into something far bigger than I ever imagined.

Hundreds of beautiful submissions arrived from artists all over the world, each responding with generosity, empathy and care. With the incredible support of @citiesandmemory , Echoes for Palestine became what is probably the most meaningful project I’ve ever had the privilege to work on.

Together, through three compilation volumes and a fundraising event that brought artists and listeners together, we proudly raised over £2,000 for @hope_and_play_charity , supporting children across Palestine.

Today, you can listen to the complete nine-hour uninterrupted journey, bringing together all 75 compositions from the three Echoes for Palestine volumes, broadcast live by @radioalhara from 11am London / 1pm Bethlehem.

Every piece responds in its own way to themes of memory, displacement, resilience, grief, hope and cultural survival. Together, they form an emotional cartography of Palestine, where listening becomes an act of witness, solidarity and care.

If you’d still like to support the project, purchasing one of the compilation volumes continues to directly benefit @hope_and_play_charity , helping provide creativity, joy and vital support to Palestinian children.

A heartfelt thank you to every artist who shared their music, to everyone who listened, donated and supported the project, to @radioalhara for broadcasting it today, to @citiesandmemory for believing in the idea from the very beginning, and to @burla_22 for creating the beautiful artwork that gave the project its visual identity.

75 artists. Three volumes. Nine hours of music. One collective act of listening 🕊️🇵🇸

Tune in now at @radioalhara : https://radioalhara.net/ 🎧

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🎙️ New episode of Flowcast, our art & science podcast, is out!

We're speaking with Salma Ahmad Caller, a UK-based multidisciplinary artist with a lifelong connection to rivers: the Thames and the Nile.

Salma worked on Segment 15 of the river Lech — a stretch that, on the surface, looks like a secret, undisturbed place. Dense forest, tranquil water, a lone man rowing away on a boat. And yet, just upstream, turbines roar.

That contrast between the dream of serenity and the reality of a world in crisis sent Salma down many rabbit holes. She researched the legend of the Swan Knight and discovered it has roots in Turkish, Mesopotamian and Chinese mythology. She found the stories of women executed as witches near the reservoir where the field recording was made. She wove in fragments of Wagner, Schubert, and news commentators speaking about global water bankruptcy.

Her composition is called Have You Ever Seen A Swan. named after a line from the film IO, set in a post-apocalyptic world where swans no longer exist. 🌊

🎧 Listen on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/artsciencemusic (link in bio too)

#SoundArt #FieldRecording #MusicAndScience #SwanKnight

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Pictures from the Sonic Arts Forum in Leicester

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