The Monk
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

The Monk

On ‘the monk’, a 16th century automaton, and the work of Paloma Varga Weisz…

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Bands and Belts
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

Bands and Belts

About animal pack-bands from Iran and the Irish ‘crios’…

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Glimmer
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Glimmer

On Nils Økland, Lars Hertervig, Jon Fosse, and Werner Herzog’s ‘Heart of Glass’…

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 Shadow
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

Shadow

About Shadow, Peter Doig, and ‘liquid life’…

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To be nothing
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To be nothing

The Hardanger fiddle, Knut Hamre, and Benedicte Maurseth…

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Wu wei
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

Wu wei

Tang Yin, ‘wu wei’, and Michael Puett’s ‘The Path’…

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Monkey
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Monkey

About Mike Nelson, ‘Roadside Picnic’, and Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’

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Whisht
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Whisht

About Lisa O’Neill’s ‘all of this is chance’ and Patrick Kavanagh

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Scrapbooks
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Scrapbooks

Thoughts on scrapbooks, especially those made by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden

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The Wren
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

The Wren

About ‘Wren Day’ and Lankum’s ‘Hunting the Wren’

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Becoming Invisible
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson

Becoming Invisible

‘Wood and Water’, Jonas Bak’s beautiful and sensitively modest film, concerns Anke, a widowed older woman, who is becoming ‘invisible’…

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Ghazal
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Ghazal

The ghazal, once associated with formal musical performances, has now been incorporated into popular music and is as often sung by women as men…

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Carts and Caravans
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Carts and Caravans

In A Time from the World, Rowena Farre tells the story of how she lived with Romanies and other travelling people, picking fruit and vegetables, selling trinkets, and telling fortunes…

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