The stupendous irony about the fallout from the Epstein files is that the only man who is likely to lose their power over it is Keir Starmer 😭🤣😭😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

«For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. … The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class « www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star

Oranges in the storm, Athens

The mornings in that city were strange, as citizens, barely awake, reached for their radios to hear what the Mad King had done overnight, compelled to start their day equally cursed by knowledge and unable to act on it.

The work of artist Gelare Khoshgozaran seems ever relevant from Cell project space’s mail art series during covid ‘Queer Correspondence’

A remixed Bridget Riley collage using pages from Studio International (July-August 1971)

“If problem-solving is linear, autopoiesis involves a circular causality that loops through the brain, body, and world. “ “Aphorisms, algorithms …They are small bones fossilized from the messy body of lived experience.” nautil.us/what-is-inte...

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Sunlight Mirrored in your Iris (Komorebi series) Photograph of painting printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte, 68x51cm, 2025, Edition of five

Xmas tree in a living room in Levittown, Long Island Diane Arbus, 1962

Small things with big ideas at White Conduit projects London curated by Paul Carey Kent Artists’ talks Saturday at 3pm

Saturday at 3 artists’ talks at White Conduit projects Islington   exhibiting a photogram & an early painting, distant in time, method & materials both depict pentagons, a recurring fascination; the weird beauty of fivefold symmetry, nature’s strange geometries & everything connecting across time

Heart urchin

showing in Small Things with Big Ideas in London til 20th Jan @whiteconduitprojects_london Time Swims in Circles is a unique photogram made on residency on spetses. The forms are oval heart urchins and the objects known as ‘Aristotle’s lanterns’ sea urchins intricate pentagonal jaw structures

“Perhaps this is why I was sure I was in a spiral: despite the persistence of the image of history repeating on a loop, time doesn’t move that way. It doesn’t merely circle, it spirals, returning to places that feel familiar but are fundamentally different, having accumulated all the weight

5/ Surrealism Against Fascism Naomi Klein 26.11.2025Essay A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide? www.equator.org/articles/sur...

Undue Flexure ~ Reference books, elastic bands, version one 2013 ~ exhibited in Return to Reason at Imperial College London ~

Elasticity, Fracture & Flow original pages from artists’ book 2021

Frieze was fun yesterday some favourites … Sanya Kantarovsky at modern art Mark Corfield-Moore at kate Mcgarry Joanna piotrowska at philida reid Paloma Proudfoot at the approach

BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK 14 October - 28 November @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social The Hellenic Centre 16 - 18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS Curated by Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrou,Christina Mitrentse

Opening this evening at the Hellenic Centre in London 🧡 BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK 14 October - 28 November 2025 The Hellenic Centre 16 - 18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS Curated by Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrouand Christina Mitrentse

Looking forward to the Bookmorphs exhibition at the Hellenic centre in london Including the work of @imogenreid.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social amongst many others

Looking forward to the "Bookmorphs" exhibition at The Hellenic Centre with work by @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social SJ Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, David Blackmore, Michael Hampton, et al. PV, Tuesday 14th October. helleniccentre.org/event/bookmo...

September 21 is Sun Day, a day of action to celebrate the power of clean energy. By installing solar, home batteries, heat pumps, and other appliances running on electricity, we can create a brighter future ☀️ Learn more and find an event near you: www.sunday.earth @sundayofaction.bsky.social

in awe of Athenian childhood

moongazing

‘Entrances to the underworld were usually located on the coast, while the highest and lowest of men were buried there, from local heroes to dead fisherfolk.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

a wild bee with pollen laden legs & praying mantis exoskeletons & cicada wings would,make beautiful miniature photograms

July moonrise ripe peach

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

The last sawfish In the collections of the old boarding school on the small greek island I found four mysterious long bone-like objects with what appeared to be shark’s teeth protruding regularly from each side like a weird giant cacti.

Time Swims in Circles my exhibition in Spetses Greece after an intense & brilliant 6 week residency Anargyrios & Korgialenios School Spetses Artists Rowena Hughes Konstantza Kapsali Natalia Manta Ioanna Paraskevopoulou Curator Eva Vaslamatzi Foteini Salvaridi

Time Swims in Circles my exhibition in Spetses is open til the 20th July after an intense & brilliant 6 week residency Anargyrios & Korgialenios School Spetses Artists Rowena Hughes Konstantza Kapsali Natalia Manta Ioanna Paraskevopoulou Curator Eva Vaslamatzi Coordinator Foteini Salvaridi

Pomegranates in progress

Selene

Bioluminescent jellyfish and barking dog at the port yesterday

New bones Lucille Clifton

Athens pigeons pick the best spots

Saw a very rare Mediterranean monk sea yesterday ! “The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus). It is the rarest species of pinniped with an estimated 815-997 individuals remaining.” “This marine mammal, listed as "endangered" since 1986 and categorized as "critically endangered" 2008 - 2015”

Ecologic Paula Bohince in @lrb.co.uk