Love Stories/Great Loves/Escapism Or Broken Record which is how I feel a little bit, so thank you if you have stuck with my 'lets go round the houses and get stuck on repeat until we finally stick with one thing...' blog style.

'Love Stories' is a collection of paintings that although dealing with separate love's in various states of being, as a whole the collection deals with the extremes of obsession and love in all its guises. The relationship between Robert Ford and Jesse James is the second one I am taking on (after Norman & Marie, above). The Film itself is beautifully sinister, much of it looks like a painting. Its a 'Love story' that I am extended out into a larger project, which has got me doing lots of this.. \0/ ..at the moment. Some of the love stories in the collection will be extended further, its one of the things I like about working in the way I do. I dont feel restricted to the 'one painting on a wall' issue which I used to deal with, and always felt slightly disappointed in. It was just to much of a squeeze for me.

Any-who, I have included scans from the short story 'Lovers of Their Time' from the collection 'Bodily Secrets' By William Trevor, which is in the Penguins 'Great Loves' Collection. On the back of each book there is a 'Love can be...' Some are a bit cheesy, but here's a few of my favourites..

Love can be controlling
Love can be murderous
Love can be impossible
Love can be forbidden
Love can be rewritten

well, my next update here will be the regularly scheduled 1st December post. I shall try and make it mostly pictures.

Currently Reading
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford - by Ron Hansen

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Fallen Empires was cheap on Amazon last week, so I didn't have to wait until Christmas, hooray! I like it a lot, but I am biased and have Snow Patrol coloured spectacles, I am wearing them right now. They are very nice.

I am on Good Reads, where everything I have been reading lately is listed, should you fancy joining and sharing what you're reading too.


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I think I have sort of, almost cracked it with the kitty cats new insulin, which is a relief. Not that she is totally stable, but she is close enough that she wont relax into an everlasting sleep, just yet.

The last couple of weeks or so have been pretty exciting and busy, which I like. A couple of new responsibilities came my way and I am really happy to have them. I am also about to register as self employed, which at first I thought was really scary....but actually its really dull. Some fear would vastly improve its reputation.

I have started a new painting series Moss Haired Girls and I have been thinking a lot about this blog and the general theme that has emerged, so I started another blog (of course) Great Loves, its a tumblr of images that are related to the texts I have been reading and will lead to a large painting series (with a working title of Love Stories) . The back ground to which is all on this blog really. So thats handy Harry.

Snow Patrol's new album is out tomorrow. I may wait til Christmas to get it though, but here are the two singles from it.

Currently Reading
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Deviant Love - Sigmund Freud

(still reading Ayn Rands Fountainhead which I am slowly enjoying)


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Currently Reading
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Deviant Love - Sigmund Freud
Bodily secrets - William Trevor

Other Stuff
Not Much, I just fancied updating with this small & quick cut out and a D.H. Lawrence passage, from a short but enjoyable book with a dramatic ending.

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Great loves:  In all its messy sometimes tragic, obsessive and unhealthy guises.

I allow one piece of text or film to lead me to another: this slightly laborious serendipitous method has its frustrations but somewhere between Romeo & Juliet and Robert Fords fascination with Jesse James (as depicted in the film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ) are all the great love stories and even greater escapism. From tiny Hidden islands to great loves.....

So after going around the houses a little bit via Merry land, Love stories will probably take up the rest of my time on the residency. Hooray!

(I still like MerryLand though)

In the mean time I am making some more cut outs, naming tiny Islands to escape to and starting a new painting project which will work its way into The Collector Zine: Issue 3.

Alice's Island: I asked the kind people of twitter if anyone would like their very own Island. It would be named after them, then scanned and emailed to its new owner.

Currently Reading
Story Of The Eye - Georgres Bataille
Forbidden Fruit, from the letters of Aberlard and Helois - Peter Ablard
Eros Unbound - Anais Nin
The Virgin and The Gypsy - DH Lawrence

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All is well with me and the kitty-cat, I am having a devil of a time stabilising her on her new insulin but we are keeping each other company rather nicely. The new Florence & The Machine album Ceremonials is out. I am a fan. Its on a loop. The kitty-Cat doesnt mind.