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Author Archives: Bobby Seal
Space, Shadow and Light: The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer
Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the … Continue reading
The City of Dreadful Night
James Thomson was a Scottish-born poet, atheist and anarchist. He struggled with depression, insomnia and alcohol-abuse throughout his short life and his work frequently reflected the bleakness and despair of his life’s experiences. Thomson wrote The Doom of the City … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, atheism, Blanchard Jerrold, George Gissing, Gustave Doré, James Thomson, London, Poetry, poverty, psychogeography, Victorian era
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The City, Modernism and the Flâneuse
The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its basic characteristics and used as a modus … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Dorothy Richardson, flanerie, Flaneur, flaneuse, Katherine Mansfield, London, modernism, Paris, Virginia Woolf
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City of Exiles by Stuart Braun
The first time I visited Berlin was in the spring of 1989. Falling into conversation with a Berliner on a bus one day I asked him if he thought the Wall would ever be taken down. Of course it would, … Continue reading
Why I Am Not a Painter
Why I Am Not a Painter is one of my favourite Frank O’Hara poems. He wrote it after a series of visits to his friend Michael Goldberg, the American abstract expressionist painter. Like many have done so before and since O’Hara … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract expressionism, Frank O’Hara, Michael Goldberg, New York School, painting, Poetry
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October Sky
October sky grey above – Sun glow claws at southern edge. Daggers of rain cold, vindictive. Leaf blown, withered. Slick wet paving mirrors sky. Grey on grey.
The Eye of the Inner Ear
as the films of Davies illustrate so convincingly, ultimately it is the inner space of the individual imagination that matters most. Wendy Everett: The Eye of the Inner Ear: Terence Davies and the Space/Time Dimension, p.308. Essay published in: Wendy … Continue reading
Poem No. 4
Rooted – in nurturing soil, a growth inarticulate in its proliferation Anorexic pruning – a painful birth revealing flowers of such unexpected beauty Image: Culloden, August 2010
Four Dogs
I asked my friend Will to join me on this walk. Will has lived in Wrexham for most of his life and I hoped he could put a personal perspective on some of the places I planned to explore. Ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Acton, Acton Hall, Acton Park, Bernard Oppenheimer, Judge Jeffreys, Sir Foster Cunliffe, The Four Dogs, Wrexham
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