Recently, I heard a radio interview with Adam Curtis, the brilliant documentary maker, whose style is that of cross-reference and visual metaphor. Broadly speaking, his intertextuality focuses on politics, lived experience and the way media is consumed. Often, he’s been criticised for a bleak worldview, a tendency to zoom in on all things Orwellian. ButContinue reading “Too Much Nostalgia”
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House Clearance
For over nine years , I worked in a children’s charity shop. Some beautiful people worked there, some eccentric and funny, some, not so much. It was a nice window into the new city. Generally, we enjoyed the work, except for the house clearances. Id weave together a picture in my feverish brain about theContinue reading “House Clearance”
