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Heckel’s Horse Jr. Green G’s
Acrylic on handcut paper, PVA glued to cardboard.
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Edgeworth Band new set list rehearsal, 11th May 2023. Filmed at Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club, Muswell Hill, London.
Edgeworth Band are working on a new set list. Tonight, we rehearsed The Parlour, Only Need, Is it any wonder why?, Roam and Road Go, all for the first time. All old songs on my Black Ivory demos on Edgeworth Band Bandcamp, but for Emma they’re all new songs.
Knee Bore’s from Elbow Sisters. I don’t know what happened to the original lyrics I wrote for it and can’t remember a single word. I took Shelley’s Chinese lyrics and substituted to the closest English sounding alternatives. So Aesphonly.
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Other than when my neighbour’s singing in her garden I work in silence. I went to an opera recently my cousin, herself a classical singer, produced and staged in one of the Muswell Hill churches. Halfway through the show I found myself backstage with the singers waiting to go on. Being an audience member I wasn’t supposed to be there but it was where the only toilet was. The singers backstage have to be silent as there’s no amplification on stage. There isn’t really even a stage. Audience and performers on floor level. One piano played by two pianists and a singer. Any noise backstage would be heard in the audience. Had I given it any thought I’d have assumed the singers backstage would all be sat down quietly waiting their turn but they were silently dancing with each other.
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Heckel’s Horse Jr. Oil Transfer Drawings – May 6th and 7th 2023.
Limited editions pander to an unhealthy and despicable mindset. All my work is now untitled and editions, unlimited. All these are on A4 office paper. Not acid free. About 80 gsm. Most, if not all, are hand-painted as well as transfer drawn, effectively making them original oil paintings.
Will the unprimed, acid laced and thin office paper survive the acidic paint? I have oil transfer drawings on such paper from ten years ago that look fine. Albeit kept out of sunlight. Not sure if they’ll still be fine in a hundred years. Not sure if AI will have invented a cure by then. They’re unprimed by necessity. Primed paper’s too insensitive. A lot of the oil is removed during printing, meaning they dry in days and I guess, subsequently have a longer life expectancy.
One is on the wooden board I was using for one of the colours. More of them to come. Virtually any non-MDF, A3 and larger scrap wood I come across walking round Muswell Hill is coming home with me now. Plenty of wealthy compulsive redecoraters round here. The Ron Throop writing inspired post-creation illustrations started a wooden board theme.
The tracing paper drawings are declared artworks in their own right.
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I was sat too far from the camcorder for the vocals so recorded some solo after she left. Both the Emma and non-Emma versions are on the album. It would have gone on our Bandcamp had it not included covers. We did a new song tonight, a cover of Spaceboy (Smashing Pumpkins). I have extremely mild hypermobility syndrome in my fingers so rarely play acoustic.
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Edgeworth Pack R includes the following 8 original A4 handmade block prints, in addition to the 10 I was born in a mine set. Each is signed in pencil. The text on the Goat Tap one is computer printed using a, now lost, font I designed using the elephant image from the Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club magazine front page logo. The font is on one of my broken hard drives in my storage room. The two Shin Detonator block prints were made with lino blocks. All the others are woodcuts. Edgeworth Pack’s are freely available to qualifying supporters of Black Ivory Printmaking & Audio Club, Edgeworth Band and my art in general. See Edgeworth Pack R for details.
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