dermografia X - zero degrees
Hello hello,
It's taken a while but we've made it - the 10th edition of this newsletter! I am planning to keep it up, hopefully I can resume a more frequent schedule as well. It's colder and darker in London now. My mind has been somewhat taken over by stress from my day job, my civilian job. But I love this time of year, and I've been learning how to knit. so I'm fully prepared for a calm and cosy season.
//happening
Plans for the next iteration of Tempting Failure are well underway. As we work on a funding application, and watch successfully funded projects and people marking #NationalLottery25 on social media, I keep thinking about what a strange gamble it always is. All this work and words and ideas. Time, conversations and 'pencilling in'. And then really just crossing your fingers and hoping you get lucky this time. I don't know. There's more too it than luck of course, but it doesn't always feel like it to me.
//aesthetic pleasure
Frozen flowers - 0 degrees by Bruce Boyd
//read
Just to be contrary, whilst everyone else has been obsession over Margaret Atwoods latest The Testaments, I returned to and reread a older fave - the Maddaddam trilogy. I recommend these books all the time and it was a joy to revisit them and discover different things.
Here is an immensely satisfying video of pencils being made.
And how living in the age of algorithms has changed our sense of time I found.
yours in love + rage,
//Hellen