My first Gum efforts... A truly enjoyable process, I can really see myself getting serious with it in  future. For now, I am rushing off to finally have my heart fixed and hopefully I should be back in action within 6 to 8 weeks. See you on the other side!

A new portrait of Klashy boy. It must be spring, I am using colour!

A start of an interesting new project - body landscapes.

My today's research into the world of abject art lead me from Viennese Actionists with artists like Otto Muehl and Gunter Brus to the Chinese baby eating performer Zhu Yu. The latter somehow linked me to the video below, which undoubtably cannot be called art, but nevertheless is an interesting watch. It certainly underlines the cultural differences between the East and the West.

Today I've created a couple of 'body projections' with the use of some landscape shots taken during my afternoon walk.

I haven't been absolutely useless during the month of February. I have to admit, I haven't read much, as I have been sleeping a lot, but I have managed to complete a small personal project, I have started some experimentations with using cyanotypes on alternative materials and I even managed to get to National Portrait Gallery to see David Bailey's 'Stardust' (totally worth the visit!).

Today, I will present my little personal project - You take my breath away. This project focuses on my illness and its overwhelming influence on my everyday life. I thought that such important part of me deserves a little more attention than just the odd complaint or a whinge.
The project is separated into three parts - the physical pain, the illnesses direct influence on my daily life and the psychological experience the illness often presents.  I believe this project will lead to a creation of a more specific body of work concentrating purely on pain and maybe even only on the experience of migraine (pic1).

I am too sick to write anything interesting, so here is a pretty picture instead...