Monday, 14 March 2016

How long, how long must we sing this song

Ankara

Friday, 11 March 2016

wind yer neck in

I don't know if I like it or not. Is it a Banskie?

Saturday is shopping day

the I wrote zone

c'mon down

in Berlin by the wall

spitfire snow and fury

nice work

Dog + lamppost

Wayside shrines and the code of the travelling man

Alterations as usual during business

Sunday, 6 March 2016

#1LOVE

Who said that?

Don't be silly, Toto

It's pleasant down that way, too.

That's funny. Wasn't he pointing the other way?

Of course, some people do go both ways.

Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?

What makes the flag on the mast to wave?

What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk

if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything

as plain as the nose on my face

the words from The Wizard of Oz

the pictures from the Subway, Southampton

Thursday, 3 March 2016

This blog takes its name, and inspiration, from a picture by Hungarian photographer & artist Flora Borsi. It was an adaptation of Kees van Dongen's 1919 painting The Corn Poppy. Scroll back to entry number one and you'll find the following comment:

My favourite piece of art is . . . no . . .
My favourite piece of visual art is . . . no . . .
My current favourite piece of visual art is The Corn Poppy by Kees van Dongen . . . no . . .
My current favourite piece of visual art is Flora Borsi's treatment of The Corn Poppy by Kees van Dongen from her series of photographs imagining Models of Abstract Paintings as real people.

What I liked about it was how she played with the idea of Art. Kees van Dongen's painting is a classic. Flora hijacked it and made it her own.

It was a great image, cleverly manipulated but she turned it into something new. In the same way that after Hendrix re-invented All Along the Watchtower even Bob Dylan could only hear it that way.

Flora Borsi was still a teenager back then.

Siamese is her latest project

One of the great things about Flora is that even though she has created an incredible portfolio of work already, I feel the best is yet to come.

Thanks Flora

visit Siamese on Behance

all images copyright Flora Borsi

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

sniggering through the snivelling

Angus

He who laughs last, laughs laughiest

I am sooooo excited, I'm over excited. I'm hysterical.

I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

Honestly, what planet do these people live on?

And why isn't it further away?

As she left the room I knew I should shut up.

But you know when you should shut up because

you really should just shut up . . .

but you keep on and on anyway?

Well, I had that.

What would I be doing walking the streets at night?

As a stuffed olive gate-crashing cocktail parties?

All quotes from Louise Rennison (1951 - 2016)

Friday, 26 February 2016

Down in the basement, mixing up the medicine

The Corn Poppy has been taking a little break during February working on a project which will go live on March 1st. It's been fun and has nothing to do with street art.

Until then stay cool and keep taking the tablets.

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