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Rogier van der Weyden
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Not the Painter. Collagist and photographer, writes the occasional poem. Proudly overburdened with mitochondrial challenges since the early sixties.
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Elon Musk standing in a tieless suit with an astronaut's bunny headset with his arms folded in front of the Francis Scott Key Bridge behind which are piles of orange Penguin paperback books. Either side of him looking on judgementally are Virginia Woolf on the left and Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel in the 1992 film of Howard's End. The sky is cloudy and blue and a disintegrating Tesla flies through the air from right to left. Over the sky are the words "She knew this type very well--the vague aspirations, the mental dishonesty, the familiarity with the outsides of books. She knew the very tones in which he would address her". The background is old paper with copperplate handwriting.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a large colour photograph of a woman wearing a red thigh-length t-shirt dress with white cuffs and collar. She stands underwater in a swimming pool with her left hand on her hip. She has long brown hair. To the right of this is a white rectangle cut from a newspaper with words in a blurry font which say "The sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology". Each word is on a separate line. Underneath it are much larger letters. There is some small text cropped off to the left and at the bottom right is pasted a small monochrome carton in white on black depicting a woman with some sort of rave-style headwear. She has a heart tattooed on her left shoulder. Under this is a graphic in various greens with large arrows and blurry letters. At the bottom of the page are three images First, a newspaper image of the track of a sub-atomic particle in a cloud chamber. Second a small colour photo of a man with his back to us wearing a black t-shirt with grey letters saying "j-d". He appears to be embracing a woman in a white t-shirt with black lettering. Third is a small colour photograph edged in black of a topless woman pulling on a white t-shirt which conceals her face. A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a black-and-white photograph of a hand holding an old style Rolleiflex-style camera looking down on the viewfinder. Pasted in here is a small colour photograph of a topless woman pulling on a t-shirt. To the right of this and pasted half-over it, is a colour photograph of a woman wearing a pencil skirt, a grey jacket and a pill box hat. She has long hair and looks down with her hands behind her back. She is standing in front of a lawn and under the shade of trees. Under this and rotated 90 degrees to the left, is a black-and-white photograph of three mid-20th century men in suits (from left to right, grey, white, and black) and ties sitting on a bench in front of what look like shop windows. To the left of this is a vivid fluorescent green square about the size of an LP, with a CD at the centre and various small, coiled black wires in side. There is a small black circle at the bottom right of the CD and what look like small diodes attached to the wires.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Stanley Spencer, Drawing for the Left Panel of ‘Resurrection: Rejoicing’,
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125362
Purchased 1980
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994
A page from a collage scrapbook. The top two thirds of the page is taken up with a colour photograph of some sort of computer screen framed in red and pictured from above and rotated diagonally to the left. The screen is a portrait orientation with a black-and-white photograph of a man with bushy black hair and big glasses. The word "WANTED" is across the bottom of this photograph in big black letters. At the top right of this image is a small square which shows the letters "gang 104" in coloured letters on a swirly green background. At the bottom left of the page is a blurry colour photograph of a person walking away from the camera towards a bright light in black. The person wears a diaphanous outfit through which the light shines. This image is pasted partly over the larger image above it. To the right of this is a small colour photograph of abstract brown patches on a black object with a red area to the left of the picture. A page from a collage scrapbook composed of five vintage photographs arranged on a white background. The largest image, at the top, shows a woman with messy, bleach-blonde hair sitting or reclining outdoors on the ground. She is wearing fishnet tights, and a sleeveless, cropped white dress which she has lifted up, exposing part of her stomach, where a rough drawing of a heart with a diagonal cross across it is visible. She has heavy dark eye makeup and lipstick, and she holds a cigarette near her mouth, gazing toward the camera with a defiant or relaxed expression. Behind her, a person standing nearby is partly visible, dressed in dark clothing, holding what seems to be a drink bottle. Beneath that image, on the left, is a close-up of a black and white printed image showing a heavily cropped face, focusing on one eye and part of a nose, with visible film grain or halftone dots. The text “KYLIE MINOGUE” is printed vertically beside the eye, suggesting that it may be a reproduction of an album cover or magazine page. The gaze is intense, the eye sharply outlined against a soft, grainy texture. To the right of that is a smaller, reddish-toned photograph bordered in red. It depicts a person, apparently male, operating an old-fashioned film camera, pointing it toward a woman who is leaning against a wooden wall, head tilted to one side. The lighting creates dramatic shadows, and the woman appears to be acting or posing, possibly in a film scene. Below, on the left, there is a surreal black and white image of a telephone handset being held in a hand. The photograph has an X-ray-like quality, showing glowing outlines and internal details of the device and hand as though illuminated by static electricity or energy currents. In the bottom right corner is an old-fashioned photograph of a woman with styled hair, dressed in a white blouse. She is seated, looking downward at a wristwatch as though checking the time, her expression thoughtful or slightly impatient.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Beware of Invisible Cows
A sign saying "BEWARE OF INVISIBLE COWS MOST OF THE MAUNA KEA ACCESS ROAD BELOW HALE POHAKU IS OPEN CATTLE RANGE, AND THE COWS FREQUENTLY CROSS THE ROAD. DARK COLORED COWS ARE OFTEN INVISIBLE IN DARKNESS AND OR FOG. USE EXTREME CAUTION AND DRIVE VERY SLOWLY IN THIS OPEN RANGE."
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Maths joke.
Two newspaper photographs of baseball teams. The first team wear jerseys with numbers on. The second we are jerseys with ordinal numbers such as 27th and 44th. The first team are headed the The Cardinals and the second as The Ordinals. The signature for this joke seems to be S. Harris.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the the top is a high-contrast, black-and-white photograph of a woman in dark sunglasses with cropped black hair looking back over her should and gesturing towards us with her hand outspread as if to signal not to follow her. In the distance is a blurred city street. Under this is a colour portrait illustration of a severe looking man with a helmet and goggles. He is in front of a yellow-orange background. There is a large pasted cut-out of the letters "FBI" in white on black over the top of his helmet. A page from a collage scrapbook. In the centre of the page is a colour portrait photograph of a woman looking downwards or with her eyes closed. She is lit from the right leaving the left side of her face in shadow. The rest of the page is covered with thick and textured oil pastel. There is light blue close to the photograph blending into dark blue at the bottom with bright red on either side and black lines around the edges.
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Other photographs from Martin Mere today.
A colour photograph of a vaguely ominous-looking mushroom with a half-eaten specimen next to it on the top of a fence post. There is moss around it and blurry water in the background. The skeleton of a Giant Hogweed plant against a blurry background of trees. A colour photograph of a row of winter trees against a busy sky of blue and clouds. There is a lake int he foreground and in front of that the blurred image of a horizontal wooden fence.
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Various birds at Martin Mere today.
A colour photograph of two Bewick's Swans on calm water. A colour photograph of a bedraggled and wet White Stork standing on grass with its wings outstretched to dry. Another stork stands in shadow to the read and to the right of the picture. A colour photograph of a Robin standing on a wooden fence rail with some blurred foliage in the foreground. A colour photograph of a Wood Pigeon standing on a tree branch with lots of other branches around it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Wildfowl at Martin Mere today.
A colour photograph of a Ruddy Duck on calm water. A colour photograph of a Tufted Duck on calm water with some others blurred behind it. A colour photograph of three White-Faced Whistling Ducks on sand preening each other or themselves. A colour photograph of a Yellow-Billed Pintail on calm water.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left of the page are two black-and-white portrait photographs. On the left is a woman with long hair tied back from a centre parting. She is looking slightly upwards towards the camera and is wearing a white empire line dress. On the right is a woman with roughly tied up blonde hair also looking upwards towards the camera. She is wearing a grey polo neck shirt with a black collar. To the right of this is a narrow vertical strip cut from a newspaper page. At the top in straggly letters is says "LOST". Under this is an arrow pointing to the right – it has a thick tail and narrows towards the point. Then there is a large letter "B" and then the word "GRIME". These items are outlined with a box and are all in very faded grey. Under this is a black box with the letters "KNO" in white. To the right of this, rotated 90 degrees to the left and in single quotes on a light blue background are the words "Dog Man Star". To the left of the page under the two portraits is a close up high-contrast photograph of the eyes of a male lion. It's mouth is blurred. Under this a rotated 90 degrees to the right is a colour photograph which is a slight double exposure. It is of a woman with long black hair wearing a dark-blue t-shirt playing an electric guitar and singing into a microphone. A page from a collage scrapbook. The whole page is taken up with a rough extract of the map of a city. The blocks are in deep black and the streets and rivers are in white. At the bottom left is a cut-out word from a newspaper which says "revolt".
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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#Collage Speed of Thought
At the centre are two figures dressed in medical attire, tinted entirely in shades of red and pink. Both wear loose-fitting scrubs, caps, and slip-on footwear. They are shown bowing forward, with their heads lowered and bodies slightly bent at the waist, their hands hanging loosely in front of them. The colouring gives them a monochromatic, screen-printed appearance that contrasts sharply with the vivid background. Behind them rise tall, modern buildings, their facades covered in an irregular grid of brightly coloured squares resembling illuminated windows. The architectural perspective leans dramatically, giving the impression of movement or distortion. The sky behind the buildings is an expressive wash of orange and yellow hues, fading into pale tones near the top, evoking either dawn or sunset. The overall visual effect is surreal and layered, as if multiple images and textures have been cut and assembled by hand. At the bottom of the composition, the phrase “SPEED OF THOUGHT” is printed in bold block letters. The words “SPEED OF” appear in bright blue, while “THOUGHT” is rendered in a deep red-purple tone, standing out strongly against the warm-toned background. The image is bordered by a thin grey line, framed within a light beige surface that gives it the look of a mounted print or page from a vintage art book.
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage paged from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook, made up of six black-and-white cut outs from newspapers. At the top right is a portrait photograph of a man looking up and to the right. He has dark unkempt hair. To the right of this is photograph of a man with medium length dark hair with a centre parting wearing a white t-shirt with a picture on the front under a dark waistcoat with jeans. He has a lanyard around his neck and stands in front of a wall with a sign at the top left with words in Japanese saying: "Dressing room vending machines Beer, mineral water It's on the right side outside the lobby." To the right of this is a picture, the full height of the page but cropped closely to the body of a woman in a black dress, jacket, tights and shoes with straggly blonde hair and a black cap. She looks upwards. To the left of this is a small square portrait photograph of the composer Philip Glass. To the left of this is a portrait photograph of a woman with bobbed blonde hair wearing a black jacket. She has a large parrot on the side of her head which is leaning over her and looking into one of her eyes, She looks upwards with her mouth set oddly. Under this and rotated 90 degrees to the left is a photograph of a woman of girl in a houndstooth coat and a headscarf, her head down with her eyes closed. She had her right hand in front of her lower face and her left hand being held by a person who is embracing her from behind. This person’s other hand is on her shoulder. Between this and the tall photograph on the right is a cut-out headline rotated 90 degrees to the left saying "G-Men". A page from a collage scrapbook. This is mostly just one large colour photograph of a woman wearing a long-sleeved silvery top with black edges. She has bright red hair and is playing a red Gibson electric guitar and singing into a microphone on a stand. The background is a shadowed view of a concert room ceiling. Under this is a headline of blue letters on black saying "DEPENDENCE DAY".
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Next book.
A hand holding a paperback edition of The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst. This is a predominantly yellow cover with a black-and-white engraving of a lighthouse with the author's name at the top and the title in white over the main image.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. The central rectangular image is rotated 90 degrees to the left and is a black-and-white image which looks to be a still from a video looking directly along a straight road through rain-forest or scrub towards distant hills or mountains under a grey sky. Written at the top left of this image in large red letters is the word "PATROL" with the word "KARMA" in slightly smaller black letters. At the top left of the age under the corner of the main image is a large block of deep red. Pasted over the top right of the main image is a topless woman with long dark hair lying on a white bed. At the bottom right of the page is a black-and-white photograph of the head of a female mannequin with a tall, white, conical medieval princess's hat with a gauzy piece of material attached to the top. The head sites amid a bed of white flowers. It appears to be in a window box. The open window can just be seen at the side and there is a light-switch string hanging to the left of the head. A page from a collage scrapbook. The top half of the page is taken up with a black-and-white photograph of four empty ampoules, with the glass tops broken off standing vertically. They each have writing rotated by 90 degrees tot he right which says "DIAMORPHINE HYDROCHLORIDE BP FOR INJECTION". They are in front of a box with the words "KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN" written at the top. Under this to the left is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a woman with long dark hair and a fringe. She looks serious and directly at the camera. To the right of this is a colour portrait photograph of a person wearing a red military-style cap with the words "EL ARTE DE LOS NINOS INDIOS A MEXICO" ("THE ART OF INDIAN CHILDREN IN MEXICO"). They also wear small oval sunglasses, a green handkerchief face mask with white patterning and a flowery, coloured shirt.
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A larger version of the abstract digital artwork.
A rectangular abstract digital artwork consisting of a mix of cells of all colours some circular but many extended to be long smears of colour, more like this the nearer to the edge of the page they get. It is as if a pixelated image has been distorted.
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour photograph of an Asian man with unruly black hair wrapped in a fluffy, bright yellow blanket. He looks to the left. There is a bright yellow bar of colour at the top and at the bottom, the name "ryuichi" in small black letters and "sakamoto" in much larger black letters. To the right of this and covering the top of the previous image slightly is a small colour photograph of a person wearing a denim shirt and a facemask, being attended to by a gloved dentist who only has his gloved hands visible. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of a woman in wide white trousers and a long-sleeved black top standing with her arms directly extended from her shoulders as if she is spinning in a dance. A smiling man stands beside her and another woman lies on the grass. To the right of this extending all the way down the page are two vertically stretched colour photographs, one of man standing in front of a blue sky and sea pointing a gun at his own temple from the left. And one of the actor Telly Savalas in an open-necked white shirt looking slightly to the left. He is covered by a headline cut from a magazine which says "ARMING TV" in big white letters over a reddish background ad extends over Savalas’ right eye. Under this on the left is a colour photograph rotated 90 degrees to the left of a person with long black hair wearing ragged brown and white furry clothes. There are roughly made coloured flags behind and in front of them and the sky is deep blue. A page from a collage scrapbook. This is a rectangular abstract digital artwork about 65 percent the size of the A4 page of the book. It consists of a mix of cells of all colours some circular but many extended to be long smears of colour, more like this the nearer to the edge of the page they get. It is as if a pixelated image has been distorted.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour image,, There is a silhouette of a person leaning slightly to the right though they may also be leaning forward. Behind them is background blurry orange and yellow blobs with black words over them. The letters "oo late too" are repeated twice in grey over the silhouette with a large "too" in grey over both. To the right of this is a black-and-white portrait photograph of a man with his head leaning back to the right who has his mouth open with another person at the bottom left and further away also leaning back this time to the left with their mouth open. They may be singing. Under both of these is what may be the helmet from a suit of armour or a mask. It consists of a face from the bottom of the forehead down with eyes and nose. The mouth is covered with a ridged cross shape of metal with a large indented disk on either side. A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top if a large black-and-white photograph of a Middle-Eastern or Asian bed with tassels and cushions and an ornate cut screen at the top. On the bed, with her head towards the bed head at the right is a woman in an oriental style dress and with a 1920s short hair cut. She lies with her right leg revealed to the top of the thigh and her left leg bent to the floor. Her right arm is above her head and her left arm is bent across the bed, She has her eyes closed. Under this to the left is a black-and-white photograph of a woman witting on the floor in a bedroom under the window in front of which is a radiator. She has long black hair tied up and is wearing a strapped black top and fishnet stockings. She is pulling on ballet shoes. Behind her is a large round open box containing what may be a tutu. To the right of this is a narrow vertical black-and-white photograph of a woman with long dark hair cropped to the left in front of various other people whose faces are not visible.
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Scrapbook #Collage pages from 1994.
A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a large, rectangular, black-and-white reproduction of a Japanese painting. This is a Japanese man from around 1800 and is the Actor Ichikawa Omezo as Kanaya Kingoro. There is Japanese text down the side which in part says "Erotic Mirror Painting". At the bottom is a small cut out line drawing of a classical female Indian dancer. To the right of the larger picture is a black-and-white photograph of a Japanese man from behind viewing a large advert for a mid-1990s laptop. Under this is a black-and-white photograph of the singer Björk taken from above, She has black hair in pigtails and is kneeling on the floor. She is wearing a white T-Shirt, white shorts and black boots and looks up at the camera with her hands clasped between her knees. To the left of this, rotated 90 degrees to the left is a colour photograph of a woman in a white T-Short and a black skirt standing in front of a cream wall. To the left of this again rotated 90 degrees to the left is a black-and-white photograph of a single small white cloud in a clear sky above a scrubby desert. A page from a collage scrapbook. At the top left is a colour photograph of a man with swept back light hair, wearing sunglasses, lifting a large, white bowl to his lips. To the right of this is a blurred colour photograph of a silver cup with flowers in it. Under this is an androgynous Christ-like figure in a crucified pose but without a cross suspended against a light blue sky with a few white stars. In the black white column to the right, there s a small monochrome, red-tinged photograph of a woman with long dark hair holding on to a small child.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Snowdonia mountains from Anglesey.
A very high-contrast black-and-white photograph of distant Welsh Mountains behind a middle-distance line of early-spring trees. The clouds in the distance are dramatically high and threatening.
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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#Collage Your Life Examined Without Cost
A collage-style artwork featuring multiple black-and-white photographs of the same woman in various poses and expressions, layered against a vivid, graphic background. The background is composed of bold, diagonal stripes in electric blue, deep magenta, black, and muted green, creating a sense of dynamic movement and contrast with the grayscale figures. Each version of the woman appears absorbed in thought or mid-action, dressed in casual, mid-twentieth-century attire such as collared shirts, jumpers, and trousers, exuding a timeless yet introspective quality. In the upper left, she appears to be mid-step, her body angled forward as if climbing or leaping. Near the centre, she leans against a vertical bar or pole, one hand resting on her hip, gazing thoughtfully to the side. On the right, she looks upward with a contemplative expression, her short dark hair softly framing her face. Other versions of her appear in profile, either speaking or lost in reflection, while one looks directly forward, eyes wide with curiosity or melancholy. The composition combines photographic realism with a surreal, modernist sensibility—edges of the cut-out images slightly rough, hinting at a hand-crafted collage technique. The border of the image retains a worn paper texture with faint handwritten notes and markings, evoking the feeling of a found document or an archival piece reimagined. The overall mood is introspective, cerebral, and emotionally layered, as if exploring the multiplicity of identity or memory through shifting self-portraits.
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Legong Dancer - Bali - 1993
A pseudo-infra-red black-and-white photograph of a Balinese Legong dancer. This is a young woman dressed in ornate clothes with an elaborate headdress topped with white flowers. She has jewelled disks hanging with threads on either side of her eyes. She has both eyes closed and hold her arms bent with her outspread hands at the level of here eyes. The background is black and indeterminate.
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM