well its all perfectly decent you know !

Shibari by Valerio, .......apparently!!??

Life Drawing with a Kink ! .....

So , I  have recently held a rather last minute little arts and crafts week up at maker heights on the Rame, in Cornwall ( which is incidentally just along the coast from the little town that I grew up in ) , and as well as damn near burning out I have thoroughly enjoyed myself !!!

A little about Maker ...... well it seems that it was once some military fortification or other and does still have a few architectural echoes that would indicate such ! apparently it has been used as various extra cirrucular and rehabilitative bases over the decades , but aside from all of that ... aside from the blah blah historical importance of some neglected ruin , aside from the value of the actual real estate that it actually resides on , or the cost of rennovations or any of that stuff

just for a minute I want to consider what Maker represents as a whole .... these days its a little bit of land that overlooks the sea , in a wonderful rural location ! its a place that offers very reasonably priced camping a very short distance from Plymouth!! and yet, also has a stunning example of a little Cornish village right on the estuary just down the hill ..and at the moment it represents , just like ADM and Ruigoord in Amsterdam and numerous other little ' Free ' spaces , psaces where if you want to put up a little exhibition , or a little demonstration ... a little social interaction , then these are the kinds of place to be able to do it .... and they are absolutely vital ... the main internal structure of the whole Gallery scene is exactly where street art came from .... huge numbers of exceptionally talented artists that couldn't get gallery space , started using the city scapes that surrounded them as their galleries ... but now of course, like everything else it has become completely enveloped by the profiteers , and now only certain street art is demanding high prices and the rest , well the rest is just graffiti ...... not the artists themselves of course , but just the whole trendy veneer of it all .... kind of like what happened to the Greenwich village scene I guess !! Personally I think that the original format before it went all gallery end , was the best !! when it really was Artists saying fuck off we don't need your gallery ... engaging in a necessary illegal activity , flouncing unjust laws , and using the image as a medium to convey actual ideas actual message , and bring a little art and provocation of thought into the minds eye of the passer by ..... and even the so and so Hearts such and such ... well everyone has to start somewhere .... and who isn't beguiled when you see something like that ... who was so and so , and how the fuck did that carve that , this far up this tree ?? or whatever x

I think we will do this again ..... Hooray for the Free Spaces !!