In these pages the Cuckoo is a clock, a pendulum; only irregular, wild, responsive: a visitor - as we all are dear reader, and we must not forget.
It is the sixteenth of May in the year two thousand and twenty six CE.
The night sky is moonless & black with stars, black as the hare Bipalium’s eyes; dark as the future.
I MUST: Larks
The second in a series of five chapbooks to be published on the New Moon of every month, from April through to August.
Please visit imust.dad to see more -
This chapbook will remain online until the end of Summer, then it will be available in print!
Enclosed - Hawthorn tea, for your heart!
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Singing in the birth of this fine Beltane! Keep your bills open lovers! It's full moon and I have a revised chapbook for you at imust.dad - link in bio.
To workers rights! Join a union! Bon courage to making peace & to do work the way you choose to do!
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1) Hawthorn tree in blossom, just
2) Red soil in bathtub
3) Visitor in the hazel coop
4) Shot from shoot for I Must: Cocks
In these pages the Cuckoo is a clock, a pendulum; only irregular, wild, responsive: a visitor - as we all are dear reader, and we must not forget
It is the seventeenth of April in the year two thousand and twenty six CE.
The night sky is moonless & black with stars, black as the hare Bipalium’s eyes; dark as the future
I MUST: Cocks
The first in a series of five chapbooks to be published on the New Moon of every month, from April through to August 2026.
Please visit imust.dad to see more -
This chapbook will remain online until the end of Summer, then it will be available in print!
To celebrate this chapbook's fruition I will be outside for the sunrise tomorrow at one of my London morning haunts. (Most likely Brockwell Park, 6:00am) If you would like to join me please be in touch & I will let you know the details.
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1) Cover for I MUST: Cocks
2) Brion Gysin, early etching, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
3) Apple where Dock St crosses The Highway
4) Big & little blood orange in the General Store
5) Blood orange polenta cake
6) Nan's glass cockerel eyes
7) Clipping found in The Abbey Bookshop
8) Niece's impression of a chick she watched hatch!
9) Ground orange peel
10) Handmade lignin
11) Brion Gysin's Stanley!!
12) Gathering sorry, tree wood-chip
13) Frame for The Cock
14) Blood orange polenta cake recipe (From Mol)
15) Joseph Beuys, drawing, Bathtub for a Heroine at Thaddaeus Ropac
16) Boy Birth by Iamu Thouless
17) 'Clay' made with orange peel & lignin, with some pith squid on top
18,19,20) Laurie Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Laurie Anderson with SexMob with Lou Reed with Tai Chi with Pema Chodron with Allen Ginsberg with Arthur Russel with so many others performing Republic of Love at the Philharmonic April 12
Movement study with sorry, tree's cookies - A needed pause in the process of stripping back each year of fibre - Have been taking the time to punch small lines into the cross sections so I can better read each year - & here I wanted to bring another process; body to body. Studying with wood is pour sensorium.
Thinking how I can translate these felt studies to artwork that gets shared- How to process this process in a way that reflects what's gone on here.
Small unprocessed text from the study:
two cookies / a batch
overlapping x rail sleepers pelvis
overlapping South and North
Catalpa trees
shelf nail got under brush pull
the tilt of the slant how you lent
like I ate and will eat shoot
which looping captain many tables
seesaw edges holds reach
section roll across sweet study
this is how I chip you this is how
you fell
5 screenshots from video footage of study. A white woman/person is on the floor balancing/holding/moving with a tree cookie. Another cookie is in the foreground.
Closer photo of a tree cookie where you can see lines have been punched to accentuate the tree rings.
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sorry, tree
1- sorry, tree in the RHB Quad 14/10/24
2- sorry, tree through the glass in the RHB Quad 27/11/24
3- sorry, tree in the RHB Quad 12/12/23 📸@ymiaoop
4- sorry, tree in the RHB Quad 20/07/23 📸 @ymiaoop
5- tree surgeons remove the final cookie 19/10/24 📸 @chajae_89
6 - poem between @soyaistripodfish & me
7 - poem between @soyaistripodfish & me
8 - poem between @soyaistripodfish & me
9 - sweet chestnuts for sorry, tree's funeral, sweet chestnuts for love 11/10/24 from Greenwich park
10 - sorry, tree leaf - Indian Bean leaf - heart
11 - roasted sweet chestnuts
12 - sweet chestnut cake made with @soyaistripodfish 📸 @ellayolande
13 - @soyaistripodfish & me reading for sorry, tree 📸 @lurosecunningham
14 - Virginia Woolf's Kew Gardens, opening with a passage describing a life of the Indian Bean tree at Kew Gardens ~ possibly the mother of sorry, tree
1 - @blacklodgepress & "I wouldn't suck your *nazi* dick if I was suffocating and there was oxygen in your balls"
2&3 - shared through @realbadtime
4 - "THEY SHALL NOT PASS" Gandalf/lotr energy- plaque to commemorate the coming together of people from all walks of life to triumph over fascist terrorism back in '36!
5 - Untitled by James Baldwin. It's especially the words - "carried away".
6&7 - shared through @harietta__
8 - shared through @brownhistory
9 - Opening from Anne Carson's 'Candor'
10 - "the touched heart madly stirs" - Sappho, pic with Martin Riley
11 - Bell Hooks 'all about love' ♥️
Half the tickets have sold for our midsummer feast in two weeks 💓 don’t sleep on them if you want to come!
We are coming up with a fresh & seasonal menu using ingredients from our local @meanwoodfarm & Kirkgate Market - can’t wait to have you!
Link in bio for tickets 🎟️
📸 Gorgeous Sunny cooking in the kitchen, shot by @mariaalzamorafotografia
1/ ‘The Disporting Springtime of Youth’, 2024, wire, yarn
2/ ‘Ligare’, 2024, fascine stakes, nettle yarn
Pictured with work by Hannah Ackroyd & Donna Coleman
3/ ‘The Disporting Springtime of Youth’, 2024, wire, yarn
Ground Test @serf_leeds group show @gloamgallery 👽✨🌸
Ground Test @gloamgallery with my loves @serf_leeds 💚
1/ Group shot with works by Charlotte Cullen, Melissa Burntown, Hannah Ackroyd, Donna Coleman, Jill McKight, & Sunny Vowles
2/ ‘The Disporting Springtime of Youth’, 2024, wire, yarn
3/ Group shot with works by Melissa Burntown, Hannah Ackroyd, Donna Coleman, Jill McKight, Seren Oakley, Kristina Nevova, Jesse McMahon, & Sunny Vowles
