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do not go gentle into that good night..

April 19, 2013by carys davies 3 Comments

I’ve been visiting West Norwood Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven, to prepare for this year’s Curious Trail. They hold the original records there, in wonderful copperplate, and I’ve been […]

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calligraphy from the Tempest

talks on ‘the art of writing’

November 2, 2012by carys davies 1 Comment

I’ve signed up for some great talks on the art of writing at the Association of Art Historians. The next one’s 26 Nov 2012 in their place near Farringdon. There’s […]

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porcelain leaf

making obliquely

August 17, 2012by carys davies Leave a comment

I’ve been reading about obliquity – how “our goals are best achieved when we approach them indirectly”. The author, John Kay, is an economist, and applies this mostly to science […]

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black porcelain plates

the pink and the black at Art in Action

July 27, 2012by carys davies 2 Comments

Here’s a collaboration: my plates, a visitor’s pink meringues, at Art in Action last week. The plates are from the stack, all are inscribed with lines from Dylan Thomas’s In […]

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porcelain plaque with inscribed line of poem

not for ambition or bread

June 21, 2012by carys davies 2 Comments

I spent a long weekend in Devon selling work at the Contemporary Craft Fair and camping in the rain. Actually, quite enjoyable: but it reminded me that I never really […]

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black porcelain plates

close reading of images, poems, pots

June 1, 2012by carys davies 3 Comments

I’ve been thinking about why writing on pots works, in preparation for contributing to a talk at the CAA on the 7th June (by the way, come!). One of the […]

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